The Golden Key is the second book in the trilogy by Mikhail Kharitonov. It continues the story of Buratina and his adventures with the troop of Karabass. The book is thick and smart, full of sex and cruelty, which serve only as mood setters. The author has made the world of this book much more solid and added more questions. There are several layers of narrative, which may be traced only in footnotes, and those footnotes are an important part of this book. If you've read the first book, you definitely need to read this one too.
# Russian literature
The Golden Key, or the wonderings of Buratina is a hard Sci-Fi book written by Mikhail Kharitonov. It is a fairy tale, written by a Soviet writer Alexey Tolstoi in 1930th. The book is set in the future, where humanity is extinct, and the only sentient creatures survived are genetic hybrids of the humans and animals or plants. The protagonist is a gene hybrid of a human and (mostly) bamboo. The book is mostly cruel and nasty, with a lot of tortures, bad language, and abuse of any kind.