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About the product Today’s 40-year-olds, in fact, are Russia: they have gone through four phenomenal decades, and now they have become closely intertwined with the new time. Alexander Snegirev (laureate of the Russian Booker for the novel Vera) is one of the brightest prose writers of this generation. The themes of the new collection «The Bad Wife of a Good Husband» are the eternal relations of the sexes, the search for oneself, loneliness, the spiritual distance between people. But the context, the very air of the book is extremely modern, and the characters are full of skepticism and self-irony. The dramas are almost Chekhov’s, the tragedies are almost ancient, and the time is 2021. «In Snegirev’s text, there may be found a regular» touchscreen «many times, but never once is the vintage word» love. » the stories are still the same man and woman. The same, but not the same. » Evgeny BUNIMOVICH. «We are getting married. She was happy, but I was kind of shy. We had a giant Pikachu as a witness. This is my idea, dragged a synthetic monster to the registry office, demonstrated non-standard thinking. Her fellow cameraman filmed. She cut my long strands. I myself asked: a new marital status — a new haircut. » …
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