"These philosophical, melancholic, darkly funny tales merit a place beside those of Kafka, Borges, and Calvino." –
Kirkus, starred review
"This collection . . . mixes playful and morose tones in stories of the kooky and the condemned . . . clever and satirical in his descriptions, Krzhizhanovsky is at his best when finding levity in grave revelations." –
Publishers Weekly "Krzhizhanovsky found his definitive English voice in the Moscow-based translator Joanne Turnbull. . . . Turnbull has co-created Krzhizhanovsky's best phantasmagorical modernist fictions in paperbacks published by New York Review Books." –Caryl Emerson