He was born in darkness, but knew that a new sun would soon rise over the world, under which the fires of pagan temples would fade. Filled with this knowledge, he felt himself not quite human, and in his tribe he became like an ALIEN in a foreign land...

A. Volkov’s novel “The Alien” is another parable about the eternal struggle between Good and Evil, oh external forces that control people and move history, about the repetition of everything, about the new coming of Christ, who was again not recognized and who is again sacrificed.