For the first time in Russian - a new novel from the author of “The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque” and “The Girl in the Glass,” which was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Detective Writers of America Association. How Ray Bradbury in his masterpiece “Dandelion Wine” forever marked the map of world literature in the American Midwest of the pre-war era, so Geoffrey Ford in “The Year of Ghosts” masterfully reproduces the taste, color and feeling of childhood. Here, on Long Island on the eve of the “flower revolution,” Mr. Thy-in-the-mouth delivers ice cream, schoolchildren are asked to make a plaster moon at home, Tattered City in the basement predicts the new appearance of a ghost who has managed to frighten local housewives — and leaves a trail of corpses behind him. the sinister Mr. White, a pipe tobacco lover and a maniacal apologist for purity...