The saga begins with an unlikely hero named Abe.

FORBES: Grow up!

The saga begins, of course, with Thomas Edison.

FORBES: American Pyramids

The saga begins with a hero named Abe.

FORBES: Grow up!

And so begins a tragi-comic saga, a sequence of ludicrous if well-meant mishaps, as the manager mounts an improbable expedition to return the beautiful Yulia Ragayev's body to her native Soviet village.

ECONOMIST: New fiction