The East is not only a noisy market-carnival, crowded with overseas traders, not only the ship of Sinbad the sailor, moored to an unknown beautiful land, and the sensual Scheherazade at the throne of the formidable Shahriyar... It is also many amazing and extraordinary phenomena, events, traditions. A lot of light and dark, mysterious and open. This is a book about life in the East, life is not bad and not good - but simply different. The stories presented in this collection were written by our own: Russian and not quite Russian authors who grew up in an environment of Soviet seclusion. Travel around the East with our collection, the most detailed and real guide.