Writer, screenwriter, and playwright Friedrich Gorenstein mastered all literary genres. This book is the first to collect all of his short stories, written between 1963 and 2000. For many who have read his novels and short stories, this book will reveal a surprising side of Gorenstein, as the comic element plays a significant role in the stories' style.

The narrators alternate, each transforming the narrative with their own consciousness, but the author's extraordinary consciousness is so profound that it permeates the texts throughout, in all their forms and forms. The focal point—the character through whose perception the reader perceives events—changes, but Gorenstein's gift remains constant. It is this vivid manifestation that creates the artistic unity of all the stories, and the author emerges in such a grandeur of his art that even the pathos of such a definition cannot detract from its accuracy.