Summary of the book "Ksyu: a novel. The Tree, the Accident: Stories" A. I. Slapovsky : A new book by novelist and screenwriter Alexei Slapovsky consists of a novel and short stories and demonstrates the author's virtuoso ability to tell stories that make a movie. "Now that I've been killed, I can say whatever I want and how I want." This is how the "otherworldly story" of an 18-year-old girl begins, whose father, a very senior official, was caught on a bribe, tried and imprisoned. The heroine learns more and more about her father, about her mother, about their friends and acquaintances, and then leaves, right according to the classics, "to her aunt, in the wilderness, in Saratov," and there is a new recognition of people from those social strata with whom she had not previously crossed paths. In fact, it's about looking into herself and the world—as if her eyes had opened, as if she had started living anew, noticing things she hadn't seen before. "The Tree" is also a first—person story. A very middle-aged man was walking along the street past a tree, and he remembered climbing it as a child. He just got in again. And his life changed radically after that. "Accident" is a cycle of six stories about people who were driving somewhere, in a hurry, making plans, and now there's a massive car accident, and time seems to have stopped — and now what? Is it always so bad to get into a similar situation, or can it turn life for the better? Or at least in a different way? Thus, the accident is something of a metaphor for the very pandemic that we all face.