First published in the magazine “Znamya” in 1990, this story became a notable event in contemporary Russian literature. Marina Paley brings the reader back to a timeless problem of Russian classical literature: the small person and their “everyday life”—in a multidimensional, chaotically split world… This is what is sometimes called “women’s prose,” traditionally placing Woman—with her many-sided problems that seem mundane only at first glance—at the center of attention.