For her anniversary, my mother chose a gift for herself: to visit Barcelona to understand Gaudi’s architecture and live on the Riviera with her daughter Lydi...

Yunna received an offer from France: she is given a workshop in Paris for a whole year! But there will be no place for Marie... Will Yunna accept this tempti...

An old sculptor keeps a monkey at home. She causes him and those around him a lot of problems, but she is the closest living creature to him...

Marie and Yunna live in the same house, and their workshops are separated/connected by an attic. In the evenings, they watch movies in Yunna’s room, recordin...

She lived on the island alone. Her day was planned - from one glass of Madeira to another. And then one day she saw a squirrel on the shore...

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Mr. Shimomura is drawing. Mr. Shimomura wants to see very dangerous wild animals. A stuffed wolf is nothing like that. She wants to show him the real one.

The famous artist turns eighty years old. Many people come to congratulate her - fellow artists, art critics, critics and generally people known in various f...

Stella returns to where she hasn’t been for many, many years. Her old friend now lives in her apartment, and, of course, the inevitable memories begin...

This story is written in the form of a shorthand recording of one telephone conversation between a daughter and a mother. We only hear what the daughter says...

The collection includes 25 stories that were published in American magazines in 1990. Authors of different generations, recognized masters and newcomers, rep...