![]() ![]() ![]() A very chaotic story in which reality keeps shifting and people appear and disappear through the walls, but if you just keep reading, a structure in the plot starts to appear. The story is a madcap stream of vignettes about magical creatures and artefacts, in which Sasha is stuck between arguing scientists who all try to get hold of a magical divan inside the room where Sasha is staying. In fact, it is a house on chicken legs with old Baba Yaga living in it, and that marks the start of a chaotic series of adventures in which Sasha is drawn into the Institute and the world of scientific research into magic.Įntering this novel, it is best to just go with the flow. The hitchhikers provide a sleeping place for Sasha in a house that is actually a museum exhibit of the NITWITT institute (National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy). Ok, so the story starts with young Alexander “Sasha” Privalov who picks up two hitchhikers on a road trip. ![]() In this supremely odd novel that is set in the 1960s in Soviet Russia, magic is real, and we have a Soviet science institute trying to make sense of it, but of course the Soviet professors do a thoroughly botched-up job of it while Soviet bureaucracy has seeped into every effort. Sometimes published as “Monday Begins on Saturday”. ![]()
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