For the first time in Russian - a collection of short stories by one of the most famous authors of modern China; author translated into 20 languages and winner of many international awards, including the Asian Booker. His name means "flying through the universe"; according to his book "Shanghai Triad," the famous Zhang Yimou directed the film. Bi Feiyu's work, like recent Nobel laureate Mo Yan, is often characterized as "hallucinatory realism"; but if Mo Yan was inspired by the books of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, then the stories of Bi Feiyu will remind the Russian reader rather the works of Viktor Pelevin.