Muriel Barbery's new novel “Strange Country” continues the theme begun in “The Lives of Elves,” where the writer first talked about how the human world is connected with the invisible world. This is the sixth year of the greatest war that man has ever experienced. In Spain on fire, Alejandro and Jesus, young regular army officers, leave their post to cross an invisible bridge into the strange world of the elves. A new acquaintance, red-haired Petrus, opens up to them the paths of a beautiful country shrouded in fog and introduces them to unusual creatures. However, even here, in this magical universe, a conflict is brewing, the final battle is approaching. And who knows how the battle will end, on the outcome of which the fate of the earthly world depends. From the author of the novel “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”!