For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by one of the most romantic writers of our time, “the master of solar surrealism.” A kind of continuation - not plot, but thematic - of "White Apples" and "Glass Soup", a new exploration of the border between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Ben Gould slipped in the snow, hit his head on a roadside curb and died. But the ghost, who is assigned to escort his soul to the afterlife, is surprised to discover that his charge is alive. The Angel of Death does not understand how this could happen, and instructs the ghost to figure it out. At first, it is burdened by the role of a nanny for the “living dead,” but then it falls madly in love with Ben’s beautiful friend... This book is about what happens when we become the masters of our destiny - for real.