About the book: 2006 / And, of course, there are no balalaikas. There is music of first-class prose, where everything that happened in human life “Before” turns out to be in spirit and meaning what will happen “After”. There are no “cemetery” moods either. “After” and “Before” are two worlds described by the author so fluidly that it is not always possible to detect the boundary. Yes and no, probably, in Khurgin’s stories there is this border.