ILLEGAL CONSUMPTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HEALTH DAMAGE; THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. Inside our time — Nine stories and novellas, many published for the first time. About WhatsApp, rusted girls, and poetic lovers. An unexpected and accurate look at our time from one of the most famous, scandalous, and vivid contemporary writers. This prose seems to come from another time. All fears, hopes, and signs of our days are given here through the prism of the future literary process. This is how authors of forthcoming eras will write about us. Sorokin, with extraordinary precision and fantastic inventiveness, finds around him the small details unnoticed by contemporaries but becoming the main subject of depiction and reflection for descendants. The new book features fewer immersions into mythologized past or jumps into absurd future; instead, it dissects the present. Meanwhile, all markers of Sorokin’s prose remain: strong social orientation, inventive linguistic play, chilling eroticism, and, of course, impeccable style. Here there is room for absurdity in the best traditions of Daniil Kharms, Gogol’s humor, and Sorokin’s sharp irony.