The book “The Feast” is a collection of short stories that combines different aspects of reality and fiction, classic Russian literature and Soviet themes. The stories here are unpredictable; the author’s imagination is rich, and the language sometimes reaches back into the past, and sometimes absorbs borrowings from Chinese. In one story, the heroine is offered, for a reward, to feed a person once a month—without knowing what it will lead to. In another, a celebration of a sixteen-year birthday is described, where the main dish is the heroine herself.
In total, the collection includes thirteen stories dedicated to food in the broadest sense of the word.