Vladimir Aituganov Photo Andres Serrano

Writer, painter, art conservator. scuba diver, martial artist was born in Russia and moved with his family to the United States in 1991. Aituganov’s paintings and drawings hang in museums throughout the world and his church mosaics have been designated to the status of Russian Icons. His publications in English, Russian and Danish include books on Aubrey Beardsley, Kung Fu, and articles on philosophy, culture, history, art and art restoration. This is his first book of fiction.

  These 24 short stories are, alternately, filled with pathos, humor, romance, sexuality, high adventure and echoes of political oppression. Some of these stories take you through what it was like to be an artist in Russia during the days of the iron curtain.  

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His stories … can take you from your everyday mind to a universe of meditative contemplation, a higher plane. These stories, like his paintings, have about them a quality of mystery, of “extraordinary imagination”: impressionistic rather than real, grounded yet somehow beyond this world, as if his talented eyes see so much more than what our normal eyes can see. The stories and the paintings grab the reader, compel the viewer, do not let you go…

 Mervyn Rothstein, writer, The New York Times

I read his fables on the edge of my seat with my heart racing as the human spirit was examined and tested. The ultimate liberation is the swirl between dimensions and the line that he takes you over...

Karen Maxwell, writer of fiction and TV Personality

These gripping stories are packed full of romance, action and adventures. Just when you think you have read the most fascinating and original ever. The one that follows becomes even more intriguing…

Terence Coyle. Artist, Best Selling Author; Art Books

ISBN: 978-1-890719-04-3

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009914192