Natalka Snyadanko is a young, but already famous writer both in her homeland and abroad. The Fluid publishing house presents her new novel, which features a Gogolian colorful cast of characters. Like his great predecessor, N. Snyadanko paints a bright canvas of life in provincial Ukraine - only post-perestroika, in which both characteristic Russian realities and recent events in world history are discernible. Masterfully moving from cultural and everyday themes to philosophical, as well as political, painfully familiar to every Russian, the author spices up any situation with inimitable humor, as if saying to all the “Slavic brothers”: “Never mind, we’ll break through!” For the Russian reader, the novel by N. Snyadanko in the brilliant translation by Zaven Babloyan and Olga Sinyugina will be a real literary discovery.