Roman Holidays. Anton, put on your boots

Victoria Tokareva is a well-known writer and screenwriter, familiar to Russian viewers from beloved childhood films: 'Literature Lesson', 'Gentlemen of Fortune', 'Mimino', 'A Dog Was Walking Along 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, 'Tokarevian' language. With likable characters who sometimes remind us of ourselves. 'Pushkinian tranquility' - that's how one can describe Victoria Tokareva's prose, works that console and help us accept life as it is, in all its fullness, complexity, and fragile charm.
...She considered herself a failure, although many envied her. She couldn't even imagine how her life could change. One day, someone else's misfortune taught her to rise above the everyday hustle and bustle.
This edition includes novellas and stories from the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the play 'So What'.