Tamerlane"s horseshoe

The book of Adele Khairov "Zagkova Tamerlana" included stories written in different years. It unites their place of action - Kazan and its environs. The provincial half -paced city on the Volga, inhabited by the descendants of Russian Sagittarius and a narrow -eyed shoot, pissed out of the seeds of a defeated oak.

In this collection of stories - memories of childhood under the wing of grandmother and plots taken from life. The author, like a spy, walked and remembered. He took out tubes of words and wrote from nature. He was looking for strange people in a gray crowd. This "nationality" was very interested in him. He felt that they knew something that should live on Earth for-to get up in the morning and catch the rising air streams. Life gained meaning. And then the quiet world on Tikhomirnova Street in Kazan with swinging golden balls in the front garden, suddenly became deep, like a well with a drowned star, tall as a buzzing bell tower and, voluminous, like a soap bubble