Fantastic collection of histories, allowing newly to give a glance on veritable femininity and sex appeal. Among the heroines of Мачадо is an ideal wife with the idea of oblatoryness| woman that decides on an operation on reduction of stomach, to find the figure of dream| authoress that in search of creative inspiration runs into remembrances from childhood.Adopting receptions from the most different genres from science fiction and magic realism to хоррора and документалистики, Carmen Maria Мачадо combines uncombined, investigating a role and самоощущение of women in the modern world. She one is of main modern representatives of new experimental prose.Laureate of the National book bonus of critics of the USA, финалист of the National book bonus the USA, bonus Nebula and Franz Кафки.In Russian language published first.