About the book: 2018 / UDC 821.161.1BBK 84 (Ros-Rus) 6-44G16 The author thanks everyone who helped publish this book Galkina, Natalya Vsevolodovna. Apartment hanging: storytelling in stories, novel, short stories, swimming / Natalya Galkina. - St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2018. - 512 pp. ISBN 978-5-4462-0109-9 Included in the eighth prose book “Apartment hanging” by a poet, prose writer and the translator from St. Petersburg Natalia Galkina includes “narration in stories” (B. Nikolsky) “How Far”, the novel “The Chief of Everything”, new stories, several stories from previous collections and “swimming” “Along Missiri, Mississippi.” “How Far” - a kind of collection of essays, a form already familiar to readers from the author’s previous books, in which stories of different tones (essay, anecdote, tragic, Borgesian retelling of a parable or historical fact) and different lengths (from one sentence to two pages) are assembled, whose puzzles are put together into the picture of existence. In this book, the reader’s gaze is presented with the space of the Karelian Isthmus beach enchanted by Faustian scientific experiments, then the wary silence of a Valdai street, then snow-covered Sviyazhsk; on its pages, aliens are filming a series about the life of earthlings in the style of “spreading cranberries”, a young man sees at night an alien sky full of unusual luminaries, containing frightening moons, the little girl Drop fights evil, and in a distant forest cordon a once-lost garden is ready to be reborn. © Natalya Galkina, text, 2018© Alexander Bravo, photograph by the author© Vera Moiseeva, photograph of the city© P. A., cover© Design. Publishing house "Kolo"»