"The Balkan Decameron" is not just a novel of feelings, it is an attempt to listen to the pulse of a new world, which turned out to be completely different from what we had hoped. This is a book about the fragile moment before the end of the old world — and about the courage of those who decided to live in the new one.Three women left Russia in 2014, long before the new waves of flight, but with the premonition that distinguishes genuine emigration from temporary flight. They are different, but each is looking for an answer to the same question: is it possible to become yourself under this beautiful and yet alien Balkan sun?The novel was written at a critical time, and therefore it is about fractures. About personal tragedies and quiet victories, about losses and discoveries, about women who can no longer return, but do not yet know how to stay. And finally, about the Balkans — strange, beautiful, seemingly native and always alien, which become not just the background, but the real hero of this book.