A debut novel from the author of Night Cinema, perhaps one of the most amazing bestsellers of recent years. But Marisha Pessl made a splash throughout the world with her first novel, sending several chapters to the literary agent of her idol Jonathan Franzen and adding the following description: “This book will be like nothing you’ve read this year: funny, encyclopedic and insanely ambitious a story of love and loss, youth and aging, horror and betrayal." Next is an agreement with a publishing house that offered an unprecedentedly high advance for a young aspiring author, first lines on the bestseller lists, translation into many languages. So, meet the new heroine of our time - Xin Van Meer. She is inhumanly erudite in the fields of literature, philosophy and science, can recite the number “pi” to the sixty-fifth decimal place by heart and has traveled with her professor father (who is also a noted heartthrob) to a huge number of cities across the country - but at the age of sixteen her life will change irreversibly due to certain dramatic events...For the first time in Russian.