About the book: 2018 / Alexander Tsypkin is one of the most unusual literary and theatrical debuts in recent times. His first collection of lyrical and hooligan stories, “Women of Unyielding Age,” became the best-selling satirical book in Russia in 2015. Circulation of 50,000 copies and first place in the rating of Russian prose of the Moscow bookstore chain. Having taken it in August 2015, Tsypkin still holds in the top 20, which is a Russian record. The stories collected in the new book were read from the stage by such actors as Sergei Burunov, Maxim Vitorgan, Sergei Garmash, Mikhail Gorevoy, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Victoria Isakova, Danila Kozlovsky, Anna Mikhalkova, Mikhail Morozov, Elena Polyakova, Pyotr Semak, Pavel Tabakov, Polina Tolstun, Andrey Urgant, Nikolay Fomenko, Konstantin Khabensky, Yulia Khlynina, Dmitry Chebotarev, Katerina Shpitsa, etc..