Mortal Combat and other 90s

The manuscript found on the mezzanine will catch Cyril in the eye. "Mortal Combat" - is this a name? Really stories? “Read,” Evgeny Ovchinnikov will sigh a little thought, “they are about my childhood in the nineties.” And Cyril will immediately fall into these stories, as we hope, you will fall.
Girl Zhenya sells New Year"s Christmas trees and starts in pursuit of a thief that crept into the market. Catchs a cow firing from the village. He crosses his fingers so that at home they do not turn off the light at the very moment when the "Mortal Kombat" begins on TV. The collection of stories about the past is framed by the history of modern - how the nephew came to stay to the author. That girl Zhenya, who was hunting for two hundred and forty -liner from the chewing gum “turbo "with such excitement, could hardly find a common language with Cyril! And yet, despite the difference in generation, they are similar to something ...
reminiscent of then funny tales, then wise parables, stories balve between the literature of adult and adolescence. The former will recognize in the town of Kokchetav a native yard of a quarter -century ago, the latter will experience joy, finding a lot in common with their lives. And a timid thought: "And my parents were also such children?" - Surely they will visit those who were born in the 21st century. Adults will seem a little bit, but still closer, clearer-like that era that now turns into literature.
Evgenia Ovchinnikova (born in 1983) began to write after studying at the literary workshop Andrei Avtsaturov and Dmitry Orekhov - and she instantly managed to develop her own restrained, slightly ironic style. She twice became the finalist of the All-Russian contest "Booker", including with the manuscript of Mortal Combat and other 90s"