[share_ebook] THE OLD GENIE HOTTABYCH

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY FAINNA SOLASKO

“Thousand and One Nights”.

Who is the Old Genie Hottabych?

This is what the author has to say of him:” In one of Scheherezade’s

tales I red of the Fisherman who found a copper vessel in his net. In the

vessel was a mighty Genie – a magician who had been imprisoned in the

bottle for nearly two thousand years. The Genie had sworn to make the

one who freed him rich, powerful and happy.

“ But what if such a Genie suddenly came to life in the Soviet Union, in

Moscow? I tried to imagine what would have happened if a very ordinary

Russian boy had freed him from the vessel.

“And imagine, I suddenly discovered that a schoolboy named Volka

Kostylkov, the very same Volka who used to live on Three Ponds Street,

you know, the best diver at summer camp last year…. On second thought,

I believe we had better begin from the beginning….”

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