Ein Tag lang wie ein Leben

Here is a revelation book woven from contrasts: piercing pain and quiet humor, caustic social satire and deep catharsis. The central story "One Very Long Day" sets the tone for the entire collection, taking the reader from the twilight of the Soviet past to the multifaceted modern world. A stubborn existential search, piercing maternal love, a gallery of recognizable human types in harsh "monologues" and healing, light-filled "bestial" and Christmas stories coexist here. This is honest prose about a man who refused to be someone else's instrument, withstood the blows of fate and sounded with his own, pure melody.