Hold your breath and other stories. Grenets Olga L.

In the new book, Olga Grenets included stories that have been published in American and Russian magazines for the past three years. The focus of stories transfers the reader from San Francisco to St. Petersburg and vice versa, but no matter what hemisphere the characters of the book were, they are organically inscribed in the realities of the modern world surrounding them. Stories themselves: about family relations and raising children, the search for their place and tender identity, the loyalty to the memories of youth and the service of the cause - they are told with humor and the rare talent inherent in the Greek - easily, in one touch, penetrate the topic and always with an unexpected , sometimes a fantastic angle. Many stories are realistic to the smallest detail, and yet the reader does not leave the feeling that they, like parables, are universal and eternal. Whether it is a completely deployed story or idea from one paragraph, the texts of this collection will make the reader think, survive and rethink his personal experience.