The publishing house "Azbuka", following the novels "Psoglavtsy" by Alexey Ivanov and "Ubyr" by Nail Izmailov, presents the reader with a new mystical thriller - the novel "Zaarin" by Alexey Shamanov, with many terrible secrets and adventures. Alexey Shamanov continues his exploration of Buryat myths and Siberian exoticism, which he so successfully began in the novel “The Assistant,” which was included in the long list of the National Bestseller Award.

Zaarin is the Buryat name for the most powerful shaman capable of being a messenger of the gods, travel to other worlds, levitate, summon any spirit, hurricanes, downpours and blizzards. A hundred years ago, an inexperienced Buryat sorcerer wanted to eat the soul of an offender - and his Zaarin mentor helped him become a black shaman. Young and daring, the student quickly got the hang of it and destroyed many... To avert suspicion from himself, he accused and doomed Zaarin himself to death. The spirit of the great shaman thirsted for retribution - and rose from the earth, and began to fulfill the curse, when in the Khandabai ulus, now a suburb of Irkutsk, an excavator disturbed the bones of an innocent murdered... A downpour with the acrid smell of ammonia fell on Khandabai, which, however, did not extinguish the fire that broke out from lightning strike. The village burned down within the boundaries of 1911, then the fire went out on its own. Following a strange fire, a wave of brutal murders swept through Irkutsk, and innocent people were taken hostage in the very heart of Lake Baikal, on the island of Olkhon. Is it possible to resist the revenge of a powerful creature? It is possible if captain of justice Yuri Belikov, a young shaman, intervenes in the case Gina Luneva, Orthodox exorcist Viktor Kronshtein, and most importantly, the power and wisdom of the brightest sacred text of all times - Bardo Thodol, “Tibetan Book of the Dead.”