The book “House of Models” contains almost the entire literary biography of Alexander Kabakov, presented in short prose. Whether the heroes live in a big city or in the outback, they want to escape from ordinary life. A beautiful girl runs away to the regional center to become a model; the married hero has his eye on another woman; lovers fly off the roof into the sky or disappear in an unknown direction... All the stories collected in this book, from the new “House of Models” to the phantasmagoric “Boulevard Novel” and “Salon”, are full of irony and at the same time boundless sympathy for people with their difficult destinies. And, as always with Kabakov, real life in them closely merges with fantasy...