Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His stories, short stories, and notebooks have been translated into many languages, filmed, and studied in schools and universities. Dovlatov's surprisingly funny and at the same time piercingly sad prose has long been a classic and makes the writer akin to such masters of tragicomic prose as A. Chekhov, Teffi, A. Averchenko, and M. Zoshchenko.

This edition includes the stories 'Performance,' 'The Voice,' 'The Road to a New Apartment,' and others: funny, sad, invariably lifelike, and beautiful.