Coat with half-belt

Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961, lives in Switzerland. The author of the novels "Notes Larionov", "the Capture of Izmail", "Venus hair", "Dark" and the literary-historical guide book "Russian Switzerland". Winner of the "Big book", "Russian Booker" and "national bestseller".
In a new book of short prose, the author writes about childhood and adolescence, the prose of Vladimir Nabokov and Robert Walser, Soviet soldiers and aserca Lidia Kochetkova... But the main character — and in the prose this is particularly evident is the Word.

“The first time I had experienced this amazing feeling. For the first time it has closed, has become a single entity: and coat with half-belt, and a toothless smile Bobby Clark, and snow by Robert Walser, and the broken-down ' 77 bus, which once held up to the Dorogomilovsky, and had to stomp through puddles. And I am printing it now on my laptop the words. And he or she who reads now this line.
And the only way to die is to choke on happiness.”