"Zhaba" (The Toad) (Russian language. Fiction.) "Emigrants' Fairy Tales" is the collection of short stories by V. LeGeza. Some works are reprints of favorite LeGeza stories published in Russian language magazines and newspapers. Emigrant literature is typically associated with the words "nostalgia," "exile," "dissident." There exists a certain mythology about emigration. But in the short stories of LeGeza, the reader encounters a surprising and extraordinary perspective on life in a foreign land, where new impression are colored by glimmers of magical childhood memories, imagination, curiosity and joie de vivre. Every nation, large, small and even the tiniest has its own fairy tales. Even regions, cities and villages have their own stories. What about the Russian- speaking emigrants scattered across the United States of America?