A murderer trying in vain to cover up the traces of his crime, a vagabond happy to have forgotten his kinship, a bloody dictator who finds himself on the operating table of a surgeon he has repressed, a world-famous writer slowly turning into a cat, a baby and a mother experiencing a brutal postpartum depression, sixty-six squealing corporate bosses, crazy with lust, a reclusive gamer worried about the fate of a gray mouse thrown out of a second-floor window, a despotic Victorian manufacturer obsessed with the idea of taxidermy, and others - the heroes of a new collection, which includes 17 stories by the brilliant English writer Michel Faber. Faber places his characters on the edge of things - be it society, sanity, the mind, relationships, or reality itself. From there, the writer points the characters in an indefinite direction and pushes them in the back - walk. Some will reach the end, others will fall; We will follow everyone with interest. Translation by Sergei Ilyin.