In a small, forgotten town, lives a young man nicknamed Ferret. Single-parent family, mother is an alcoholic, the boy raises himself as best he can. Growing up, he becomes cruel and vindictive, taking by force what others do not want or cannot give him. But at some point he discovers a strange and frightening feature in himself - he can talk to God and he hears him. True, the god of Weasel is not a church god, not a god of rites and rituals, but a natural, simple and comprehensive god that humanity had even before the beginning of religions. Aleshkovsky poses a painful and very sincere question in his novel: can a monster deserve divine beauty during his lifetime? Is this right, should it be this way? And if it should, then who is responsible for the pain caused by a person to another person? The novel “Biography of a Ferret” was a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize several years ago, today it has been translated into German and is well known to the European reader. A unique vision of the world conveyed by the author through the hero , will help you look differently at the opposition of Good and Evil and, in the finale, feel, if not love, then empathy and sympathy for Weasel.