Gold hands are re-fused, the heart presented to the girl pulsates in a glass jar, down street a lonely accordion hangs around. The first novel of Vladimir Сорокина became mischievous dance on the bones of соцреализма : a writer materialized former metaphors and added to them new - norm. From the normal point of view only a criminal or madman can give up this admission in the world of respectable citizens - symbol of circular bail and participation in abominations."Норма was written in a height stagnation and published already after disintegration of the USSR. Today, on a background attempts to revive a soviet myth, a novel purchased the new sounding - as well as eternal questions about the relations of artist and crowd, moral and expediency, about the ways of resistance to state violence and propaganda.