Evgeny Chizhov - the author of the novels “A Character Without a Role”, “The Dark Past of a Man of the Future” - was immediately noted as an artistic fiction writer who knows how to captivate the reader with an unusual plot and unusual characters. In the new novel “Translation from Interlinear”, the Moscow poet Oleg Pechigin goes to Central Asia at the invitation of his former student friend, and now a prominent figure in the government of Koshtyrbastan, to translate into Russian the poems of President Gulimov, a prophet in his fatherland... The East appears in the novel both as a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights, and as a cruel, terrible reality. A stranger, an alien from “another world” is doomed. An attempt to become “one of our own”, to intervene in the course of events ends in tragedy...