Table of contents : Content: From The listener (1971): The listener -- Black-white -- The other -- The storm -- The wolf --- The squirrel -- From The doll's house (1978) : The monkey -- The cartoonist -- White lady -- The doll's house -- A leading role -- The locomotive -- A memory from the New World -- From Traveling light (1987) : An eightieth birthday -- The summer child -- A foreign city -- The woman who borrowed memories -- Traveling light -- The garden of Eden -- Shopping -- The gulls -- Correspondence -- From Letters from Klara (1991): Letters from Klara -- From Messages, selected stories, 1971-1997 (1998): My beloved uncles -- Letters to Konikova -- Messages.