The only anthology of contemporary Danish prose published in Russia will let you see just how high this literature’s level is, and feel what true Nordic style is like. What unites all these—so different—texts? With sharp insight and a loving attention to details; with existential anxiety and focus on psychology; with a subtle taste for the mystical and a commitment to harsh naturalism; with all of it, self-irony and fleeting tenderness toward the world—23 Danish writers testify to their love, illusions, the lost past, their attraction to light and self-destruction, the balancing on the edge of water and air, water and the brink of ice. And of course, happiness and the feeling of snow.