Antoshka Petrova, Sovetskii Soiuz

Does anyone get nostalgia for going to a public bath every week ?! Frozen lockers for things, heavy gangs of water, brown loose foam, terribly naked aunts ... The writer?s word - precise, ironic, illuminated by childhood memories - can turn this ugly routine into an enchantingly vivid picture that you suddenly want to plunge into with such obviousness that neither pale remnants on a wet cement floor nor a formidable mustachioed attendant scare you. Through the eyes of Antoshka Petrova - the main heroine of the story cycle - we see our recent past. And we ... like it!