Dr. Brodsky's mistake. Story and novels. Eskel M.

"... everything told below has nothing to do with the truth and even more so - to the truth. Any coincidences of names, persons, cities and events are an absurd accident... ” With these words, Mark Eskel precedes one of his stories - “The Tale of the Golden Fish”. But the characters of all his narratives are living people whose fate is twisted in the most amazing way. And the situations in which they find themselves is the eternal interweaving of the comic and tragic, that is, all that, in fact, is human life. Rearing with the warmth and humor to the heroes of his stories, the author nevertheless ruthlessly transfer them from one time to another? He throws in search of happiness in the cities of the former USSR and beyond the ocean. Whether their searches were successful or not, to decide the reader.

the novels included in this book are largely autobiographical. The action in them unfolds in those familiar to the author since childhood of the southern cities-Rostov-on-Don and Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnieper). Noisy, green, filled with the aroma of summer bazaars and a chime of old trams, they, like people, are characters of the stories told in which laughter and tears replace each other.