The collection "Monoclon" includes 12 stories by the renowned master of contemporary Russian prose, Vladimir Sorokin. Sorokin is an extremely controversial figure. Shocking, vocal, and scandalous, his books are either widely criticized or praised. A winner of the Andrei Bely, NOS, and Bolshaya Kniga prizes, he is one of the few Russian authors whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The collection "Monoclon" boasts everything that makes Sorokin's prose truly beloved: original plots, symbolic and powerful images, dynamic dialogue, and rich, lifelike characters: a publishing house employee and a store director, a governor and a writer, a former NKVD senior lieutenant and a ten-year-old girl, Dasha... Sorokin skillfully balances realism and fantasy, shock value and sincerity, cynicism and lyricism, deliberate physicality and spirituality. His stories feature overt erotica bordering on pornography, philosophical thoughtfulness, shy understatement, and the absurd. And Sorokin himself, like no one else, knows how to observe, listen, and, most importantly, recount what he hears and sees, sometimes directly, sometimes hiding behind the mask of a cynic or joker, but always honestly—as befits a true writer.