For the first time in Russian - the most touching literary debut of recent years, a bewitching story full of fragile beauty about childhood and growing up, about love and friendship in all imaginable forms, about quiet heroism in the face of tragedy. It’s not for nothing that Sarah Winman has already been nicknamed “English John Irving,” and this novel of hers has been compared to “Hotel New Hampshire.” A novel about a girl, Ellie and her brother Joe, about their parents and her friend Jenny Penny, about guests who come to a hotel, lost in the picturesque wilderness of Wales, and become members of a family, about the limits of necessary self-defense, and about a rabbit named God. The action of this unique family chronicle spans several decades, and at the end of the day, Ellie remembers what is gone: “About the witness of my soul, about my childhood shadow, about those times when dreams were small and achievable. When candy cost pennies and God was a rabbit."