Quiet music behind the wall, or Short beeps

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...". A special place in Tokareva's work is occupied by stories and novellas, warm and lively, with a gentle sense of humor, written in her unique, light, "Tokarevian" language. With likable characters that sometimes remind us of ourselves.
"Victoria Tokareva looks at the world as if no other eyes have seen it yet, as if she has been given the opportunity to discover the nature and essence of things for the first time... she re-discovers the world around us," wrote Yuri Nagibin.
"Pushkin's tranquility" - that's how one can describe the prose of Victoria Tokareva, whose works console and help us accept life as it is, in all its fullness, complexity, and fragile charm. This edition includes prose works by Victoria Tokareva, including the novellas "Terror by Love", "The Bird of Happiness", "The Tree on the Roof", "Quiet Music Behind the Wall", and the stories "The Crystal Slipper", "Male Fidelity", "Salto Mortale", "Neither with You, Nor without You", and others.