“The poet, writer and great clever woman Maria Galina creates strange stories at the intersection of the genre of philosophical fiction, beloved by the Russian intelligentsia, and the female version of magical realism a la Lyudmila Petrushevskaya,” wrote Expert magazine. And Galina Yuzefovich clarified in “Itogi”: “All her books are about the underside of the visible world and about those barely noticeable cracks through which the irrational seeps into everyday life.” So, we present to your attention a collection of the best major prose of a modern master, including the novels “Malaya Glusha” and “Medvedki”, which received a bountiful harvest of awards and nominations. Here the otherworldly and the everyday are intertwined so closely that you can’t separate them, and everything truly terrible can be connected not with mysticism, but with the most everyday realities; here creatures are unleashed, forcing people to rush into the void, and magic is paid for with love; here people, trying to escape into myth, inadvertently awaken underground storms.