Yasutaka Tsutsui is perhaps the last classic of modern Japanese literature, who until recently remained almost unknown to the Russian reader. He was called the “Japanese Philip K. Dick” and the “spiritual father of Haruki Murakami”; many of his books were filmed - for example, based on the novel “Paprika” that we bring to your attention, Satoshi Kon directed the famous anime of the same name, and Wolfgang Petersen (“The Neverending Story”, “Airplane” President", "The Perfect Storm", "Troy", "Poseidon") is preparing a play production. Atsuko Chiba, a luminary of the Research Institute of Clinical Psychiatry, a candidate for the Nobel Prize, is known in the world of dreams as a young girl named Paprika. After all, a breakthrough has occurred in psychiatry - a device has been invented (the Daedalus collector) that allows one to penetrate into a patient’s dreams and thus treat neurological disorders. Trouble begins when a prototype of the newest, miniature version of the collector goes missing; The kidnapper uses the mini-Daedalus to drive enemies and rivals crazy. It must be stopped at any cost, before the madness becomes epidemic... For the first time in Russian.