Everything is like people

Shamil Idiatullin is a writer and journalist, twice laureate of the Big Book Prize ("Brezhnev City", Former Lenin), the author of the mystical thrillers "Unbyr" and "Recently". His new book contains exciting stories, where a fantastic plot is combined with desperate psychologism. Here, a little man is small, and ancient evil is huge, parental love confidently leads to monstrous victims, the city of childhood disappears from Google maps, grandfathers communicate with distant grandchildren through and translators, and the path to immortality is paved with corpses-in a word, everything is like people. This is just fantasy, the author believes. This comforts you? In our hard times, when everyone has a couple of publications in network magazines strives to open paid literary courses, Shamil Idiatullin generously opens the doors of his writer"s cuisine for all readers. The menu contains stories and novels, microchorriers and short films, experimental and written "on the weakly" texts. And - experts will appreciate - all of them are equipped with honest copyright explanations, how it happened. Not in every book you are met by the author, finally ready to tell you what he had in mind (Daria Bobyleva) In general, few people know how to write so that after the story, whether even a horror, or a terrible social satire, or people into dinosaurs turn, or environmental subjects are present, but still: overwhelmed the last page-and, somehow Contrary to everything written, it is light on the soul. Shamil Idiatullin is such an author, and this book is like that. And the author’s comments are delivered, of course. Without these comments, it seems, the book would not be a book, but ... it turned out a wonderful, whole thing (Alexey Salnikov)