About what was not. Flying swings

Victoria Tokareva is a famous writer and screenwriter, familiar to Russian viewers from beloved childhood films: 'Literature Lesson', 'Gentlemen of Fortune', 'Mimino', 'A Dog Was Walking on the Piano', 'You Exist...'. Stories and novellas occupy a special place in Tokareva's work, warm and lively, with a soft sense of humor, written in her unique, light, 'Tokarev' language. With likable characters who sometimes remind us of ourselves. 'Pushkin's Calmness' - that's how you can describe Victoria Tokareva's prose, her works console and help us accept life as it is, in all its fullness, complexity, and fragile charm.
...If you try to be yourself - to speak your mind, do what you think is necessary, not be afraid of anything or anyone - it turns out that it is very difficult to last longer than one day. At first, it may seem like a game, but then you have to live in truth or admit defeat...
This edition includes stories from the 1960s-1970s from the author's first collections, as well as the novella 'A Greek Was Riding'.