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This is a truly special collection of small literary forms from the bestselling author of American Gods, Coraline, Somewhere, Stardust, and other novels, Neil Gaiman. The book skilfully and sometimes unexpectedly intertwines fantasy worlds and prosaic reality, lust and platonic adoration, the impermanence of human life and the centuries-long unchanging human weaknesses, childhood naivety and adult cynicism, "white" poetry and eerie fairy tales - a kind of bursts of ideas in the blurred mirrors of consciousness. "Smoke and Mirrors" is a kind of unhurried and confidential conversation with an interesting and wise interlocutor who knows a lot of stories and is ready to share them generously. And a friendly tip - don't skip the preface in any case.