White Square

A sudden and precise look at our time from one of today’s most famous, scandalous, and vivid writers.

The collection includes nine short stories from recent years, many of them published for the first time. A young man learns that in the center of Moscow there operates an invisible red pyramid that emits a mysterious red roar. A girl tries to cope with an unpleasant and shameful ailment—she squeaks when she walks. A young man decides to win over the heart of his beloved by means of poetry, not suspecting what shocking discovery he will make soon. Retelling the plots of these stories is a thankless task. Seryōkin constantly changes the storyline, the stylistics, and even the genre itself— so you never know what awaits you on the next page. A sharp, satirical, accurate view of the present, and, as always with Sirokin, stylistically flawless: where the high lives next to the low, the funny next to the tragic, and the myth intertwines with reality so tightly that they can no longer be distinguished.