Pelevin is a master of the short story, a miniature, elegant and at the same time surprisingly complex and capacious literary form, brilliantly achieved only by the impeccable classics of Russian literature. Pelevin’s signature style is a witty synthesis of mysticism and reality, glamor and discourse, invariably careful, virtuosic work over every word. A public toilet cleaner reading Blavatsky; a barn that dreams of becoming a bicycle; a mad scientist who ate his dog in the name of a higher power; finally, the inevitable bumpy road that awaits a person at every turn... all this has become a part of our life. And no matter what happens - perestroika, reboot, war, crisis, recession - we always know that “...our universe is in the teapot of Lü Dong-Bin, selling all sorts of small things at the bazaar in Chang'an.” Even if Lü Dong-Bin himself has long since rested in peace and his grave is overgrown with grass. So, in your hands is a cast of our reality and a collection of small masterpieces of Great Literature of the late 20th - early 21st centuries.