"Fateful Eggs" is a fantasy, however it is horribly realistic at the same time. You will enjoy the atmosphere and the spirit of the novel, its versatile and polysemantic language, brilliant allegories and metaphors, its somewhat bitter and merciless humor.
Scientist Persikov develops a ray of life, which accelerates the growth of living things. The collective farm manager by the name of Alexander Rokk wants to use this invention and he orders cases of chicken eggs from abroad. Because of fatal error, they deliver the eggs of snakes, crocodiles and ostriches, which multiplied and grew to unbelievable sizes and started to move toward Moscow...
