The Big and the Small

Denis Gutsko, the Booker Prize–winning author, offers a vivid blend of humor, irony, and piercing reflections on human relationships that sometimes unfold in paradoxical ways. What is a woman capable of when, through the years, she loves her sister’s husband? What awaits a girl who ran away from home to a father who left his family long ago? What does a small child dream of when a failed writer’s father plays with him on a playground?

Once you start to love and pity one hero, you suddenly realize that the victim is not him, but someone else—someone who seemed like the executioner… The author constantly flips familiar behavioral patterns on their head, helping us better understand the motives behind other people’s actions and not to be fooled even about those closest to us…

Contents:
01_The Creator
02_Lu
03_Killers
04_Men Don’t Cry
05_Mashka’s God
06_Ilisoba
07_Origin
08_Turchin
09_Hello, Little Doll
10_Améfurì
11_Valek’s Son
12_An Animal
13_Forty Days
14_Plastic Gleam