For the first time in Russian, the first novel by the classic of modern Scottish literature Muriel Spark (1918-2006). A seventy-eight-year-old adventuress is smuggling diamonds, her grandson is trying to unravel his grandmother’s crime, otherworldly voices are dictating a novel about herself to his mistress, and Tartuffe in a skirt, a blackmailer with an enormous bust, is trying to set everyone around her on the right path - these grotesque images and fantastic situations make up the content of the novel, about which Evelyn Waugh wrote: “Brilliant, original and exciting!”