Не моя жизнь, или обратный отсчёт.

The intrigue is that, opening this collection of new and not only stories by Mikhail Barshchevsky, you seem to have received an envelope from your past (the short story "There"). Having opened it - try, taste, savor the taste of these "pieces of reality" (Alexander Zhurbin) of true life. ... In life itself, if you listen carefully to it, you can find signs, symbols - patterns that even the most sophisticated imagination cannot create. So, time has woven the laces of this book. To see this ornament was a gift of the artist. This collection contains 33 stories written by Mikhail Barshchevsky. A lawyer, a journalist, a scientist and an official (from one enumeration of his professional and personal incarnations one can add up a story) writes "not too often, but always as a gift to the reader" (Tatyana Ustinova). And the book "Not my life ..." is also a kind of offering - to connoisseurs of modern prose and to himself, in the year of his 60th birthday.