About the book: 2012 / "It’s stupid how they met. In a cafe I met a photographer friend for whom I once worked part-time. “Let’s go in,” he says, “let’s have some coffee.” All night back and forth, didn’t sleep a minute, and now I’m dragging myself to the magazine... “Eton also lived cheerfully all night, hanging out. Wow, the name is Eton, huh? He called himself that at the age of sixteen, in his barefoot village childhood. I heard it somewhere and liked it. Not like Igor, as my mother came up with. Eton - and everyone is going crazy..." Galina Artemyeva's stories are wise, subtle and honest. All of them are about us, ordinary people living our usual lives. These are stories about joy and sadness, about temptations and those everyday miracles that sometimes save us in the most difficult moments, about indifference and boundless love..