Former senior lieutenant of state security Viktor Nikolaevich, leaning out of the window, watches the joyful crowd on Leninsky Prospekt chanting festive slogans in honor of Cosmonautics Day, and five minutes later he pays his bloody debt to the past.

Divorced and lonely Tamara Semyonovna, having seen the Six-Winged Sarafony in a dream, wakes up and experiences a truly Kafkaesque transformation.

The director of the Sotnikova store, Ekaterina Stanislavovna, is forced to come to terms with her new humiliating role in order to hush up the case that discredits her name, while little hamster Timka waits for prosphora hidden in the Rigonda radio-player.

On a Saturday in June, ten-year-old Dasha sees Red Throat in a horse's whitish eye.

Vladimir Sorokin's collection of short prose, 'Monoclon,' includes twelve stories, sometimes outrageous and shocking, sometimes unexpectedly touching and lyrical, but always truly profound and thought-provoking.