Yoav Bloom, author of the bestselling book The Coincidence Makers, is one of the most original writers of our time. Each of his books is based on an extraordinary idea, a new look at the world and the possibilities of human consciousness. The hero of his latest novel discovered as a child that he was different from the rest: he was able to hear people’s thoughts and experience their feelings. As he gets older, overwhelmed by the waves of other people's emotions, he is forced to isolate himself from the outside world and live as a hermit. However, the illusion of security falls to pieces when one day his former lover appears on his doorstep, threatening him with a gun. From now on, the answer to the question “To what extent are my thoughts and desires really my own?” capable of saving the hero’s life – or leading to inevitable death...For the first time in Russian!