These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present. (168 pages)

A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse. (199 pages)

Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life crossed with mythical fairytales, all swirl in this novel. Children, students, beggars, young poets; heroes and heroines live their lives intensively, balancing between longing and euphoria in their lives in St. Petersburg. (184 pages)

In the last years of the Soviet Union, it follows the ordeals of Matiushin, a sensitive, disoriented young man, damaged by brutality first within his family and then in the army. (169 pages)