A new wonderful translation of the novel by Julio Cortazar, previously published under the title “Winnings”. At first glance, the plot of this book is simple - just the journey of a group of tourists who have won a ticket to a sea cruise. However, gradually the real journey turns into a mythological, psychological journey realism is replaced by magical realism, and the routine collisions of the life of “little people” acquire truly eschatological features. “The ordinary is imbued with the incomprehensible,” Cortazar himself commented on this novel. And the shadow of the incomprehensible truly permeates every word of this work!