Don't Get in a Car with Two

“Don’t sit in a car with two people” is a new collection of short prose by the incomparable Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, performed by Karen Badalov, Anatoly Bely, and Yulia Yablonskaya.

Mystical stories, paradoxical tales, science fiction, and even, as the author herself calls them, “current fairy tales”—all of it in truth presents a variety of the amazing world of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. Like no one else, she precisely captures the details of our modern life—while showing them to be eternal. Her characters fall in love and break up, find work and lose it, gain a home and suddenly become homeless, but often it’s a saving happy accident that comes to the rescue, and people are capable of helping and doing good.

Her distinctive language, incredible plot twists, and—despite everything—the belief in the best make her books a major and important event in contemporary literature.