Caustic, witty and unusually polemical “Man Without a Country.” Paradoxical essay “God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian!” and conversations about the craft of writing “Shake Hands with God,” published for the first time in Russian. In these works, difficult to define in terms of genre, Vonnegut’s talent sparkles with all its facets: fiction intertwines with reality, irony suddenly gives way to a serious tone, and again and again comes to the fore “eternal” questions - about life and death, about creativity and about time, which determines fate.