“The Bird Market” is a new collection of short stories by famous writers, continuing the tradition of the bestsellers “Moscow: a meeting place” and “To live in St. Petersburg: thirty-seven authors under one cover.The heroes of the book are domestic animals: Evgeny Vodolazkin’s cat , Anna Matveeva, Alexander Genis, Dmitry Vodennikov's dachshund, Narine Abgaryan's donkey, Lyudmila Ulitskaya's plush puppy, Roman Senchin's goat, Alexei Salnikov's ants| and non-domestic ones: the lobster Sebastian, whom Tatyana Tolstaya saw in the aquarium and became friends, the cross jellyfish that stung Vasily Avchenko in the Amur Bay, the boa constrictor Andrey Filimonov, traveling through the sewers, and the crocodile interviewed by Ksenia Buksha ... Compilers of the collection - publisher Elena Shubina and editor Alla Shlykova. The edition is illustrated with drawings by a young St. Petersburg artist Arina Obukh.