Alexander Ilichevsky speaks of Natalia Rubanova’s prose this way: “The language is simply enchanting, in the sense that it is explosive, clear, always speaking, telling, loving, haunting, precise, transparent, frantic, nothing superfluous - and this is surprising: on the one hand it seems fantastic, but on the other - nothing like that, furious and rushing. That is, “Hats off!” Natalya Rubanova’s characters have one thing in common: the desire to find love, but their feelings are “short-lived,” although no less strong: how not to go crazy when your artist wife falls in love with her own model, or what to do if you meet Mozart himself on the Yalta embankment. Or maybe you should just go back to your youth and meet your soul, ex-lover and strange angel?.. The highest emotional intensity, brilliant language play, authenticity of feelings, subtle irony - everyone will find something of their own in Rubanova’s book.