Vladimir Sorokin has written a new parable — wild, enchanting, and ruthless. In the novel "Fairy Tale", a gloomy post-apocalyptic Russia comes to life, where garbage fields become a territory of hope, and a journey through a landfill is a path to sacred transformation. The world after the catastrophe is fabulously absurd, but eternal meanings sprout from its panopticon: death and rebirth, faith and despair, decay and a new utopia. Sorokin takes the reader through the cleansing absurdity: from the terrifying prose of decay to glimpses of grace. "Fairy Tale" is a new epic about the Russian consciousness: vicious and bright, humiliated and dreaming. The author again constructs the future as an allegorical nightmare, but also gives the reader a chance — a terrible one, but the only possible one.