Songs of the Canes Venatici Constellation

Ivan Okhlobystin’s satirical prose tells of tragicomic adventures of seemingly ordinary heroes in simple provincial towns. But the perceptive writer knows: in life, there’s nothing ordinary at all! Laughter and tears, real human dramas, and absurd twists of fate keep our attention from the first to the last line of this fantastic book. It’s both a dynamite and a fireworks display. A book like a mad clown’s act—who in the past was a humanist writer… or a nuclear physicist. In the best traditions of Gabriel García Márquez—and yet very Russian in spirit.