About the book: 2009 / Writer Alexander Khurgin, author of the famous books "Night Cowboy", "Endless Chicken", "Balalaika Cemetery" and others currently lives in Germany. His new book is a modern parable-fairy tale, written, as the author himself puts it, “in the range from emigration to absurdity. In life there is always a place for both. Life is drowning, floundering in the absurd; the absurd arises from life itself. In literature, apparently, everything is the same».