About the book: 2019 / Igor Sakhnovsky - prose writer, poet; author of the novels “The Essential Needs of the Dead” (Fellowship Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, UK), “The Man Who Knew Everything” (Bronze Snail Award, awarded personally by Boris Strugatsky; film adaptation in 2009), “Conspiracy of Angels”, “Freedom by default"; winner of the reader's choice prize of the NOS award, finalist of the Russian Booker, Big Book, and National Bestseller awards. His books are published in Germany, France, England, Italy. Irony and subtle observation are combined in Sakhnovsky's prose with loving attention to the precious little things in life. Sakhnovsky is interested in every person - be it the slightly awkward but touching “big white woman” or the fearless Gena Schneider, who looks like a “nobody’s bush.” The collection “Beloved Ghost” includes all of the writer’s short prose.