Today’s forty-year-olds are, in essence, Russia: they lived through four phenomenal decades, and now they are firmly fused with the new time. Alexander Snegiryov (the winner of the Russian Booker Prize for the novel "Faith") is one of the vivid prose writers of this generation. The themes of the new collection "The Bad Wife of a Good Husband" are the eternal relationship between the sexes, the search for oneself, loneliness, and the emotional distance between people. But the context—indeed, the very air of the book—is extremely modern, and the characters are full of skepticism and self-irony. The dramas are almost Chekhovian, the tragedies are almost ancient, and the time is 2021.