Black coat. Terrible cases. Petrushevskaya L.

The term “case” indicated mystical stories, usually told at night - such “evenings on a farm near Dikanka”. It was folklore, along with ditties and jokes. L. Petrushevskaya at an early age everywhere - in an orphanage, in a pioneer camp, in children's tuberculous forest schools - told these “cases” at night. But they came much later - and now they were already signed in notebooks. And it was possible to publish them only for decades later. And the current book consists of such mystical stories. It also included the author’s predictions: “At the end of 1976 - early 1977, I wrote two stories -“ Hygiene ”(about the epidemic in the city) and“ New Robinsons. Chronicle of the late XX century ”(on the escape of the city to the village). In November 2019, I wrote the story “Allo” about isolation, and in March 2020 it began. In early July 2020, I wrote the story “Old Bus” about the capture of the bus with passengers, and a week later in Ukraine this happened. Data four predictions - at a distance of forty years - you will find in this book. ” The stories of Petrushevskaya have become an absolute world classic - they are translated into many languages, awarded the World Fiction Prize (2010) and recognized as a bestseller according to The New York Times and Amazon.