Efim Shifrin needs no introduction. A talented actor, a brilliant performer of songs and monologues, a wonderful storyteller, he is loved by many. He really has something to tell about - more than 70 thousand subscribers on Facebook, almost 115 thousand subscribers on Instagram.The book "The world is small" — short sketches about life and people, memories of those with whom Shifrin played together on the stage.Here is what the author himself says about his book: "It is important for me to deal with my own fate, in which the living people who left me were crowded on a patch of life and continue to crowd - my relatives, friends, colleagues and strangers who accidentally got into my world.While my memory does not fail me, I decided to remember them — someone with gratitude, someone, alas, with reproach…In short stories about a long life, it is difficult to tell everything that I wanted to tell to those who might need my experience.But my world is small, and I remembered mostly those who were nearby.""The World is small" is a book that turned out to be cramped with words and spacious with memories.