"Stories about the Motherland" cover a wide range of aspects of modern life. The heroes of the collection are people of various social classes and nationalities: from a pensioner to a president, from a guest worker to a researcher, from a worker to a minister. Glukhovsky invites the reader to look at the underside of what is happening in Russia in the 21st century. Who controls the elections? Why is corruption so widespread in our country? Who is at the head of the state, and how did these people come to power? Why does people eat what they tell them on TV? Subjecting current realities to biting irony and harsh analysis, the author seeks answers to the questions: what awaits us next, which way will we go, do we even have a future? "Rasskazy o Rodine" okhvatyvai︠u︡t shirokiĭ spektr storon sovremennoĭ zhizni. Geroi sbornika - li︠u︡di samykh raznykh sot︠s︡ialʹnykh sloev i nat︠s︡ionalʹnosteĭ: ot pensionera do prezidenta, ot gastarbaĭtera do nauchnogo sotrudnika, ot rabochego do ministra. Glukhovskiĭ predlagaet chitateli︠u︡ vzgli︠a︡nutʹ na iznanku togo, chto proiskhodit v Rossii XXI veka.Kto kontroliruet vybory? Pochemu v nasheĭ strane tak razvita korrupt︠s︡ii︠a︡? Kto stoit vo glave gosudarstva, i kak ėti li︠u︡di prishli k vlasti? Pochemu pipl khavaet to, chto emu govori︠a︡t po televizoru? Podvergai︠a︡ khlestkoĭ ironii i zhestkomu analizu nyneshnie realii, avtor ishchet otvet na voprosy: chto zhe nas zhdet dalʹshe, kakim putem my poĭdem, estʹ li u nas voobshche budushchee?