The book by Russian Booker Prize winner Olga Slavnikova includes the novel “Alone in the Mirror” and new stories. Collected under one cover, these works surprisingly resonate with each other. The main character of the novel is a talented mathematician, literally torn between scientific research and hopeless love for an ordinary student; the hero of the story “Basileus” is a unique scarecrow, essentially a naturalist scientist, infatuated with a woman who openly uses him. The people closest to them - their lovers - become monsters...