“I don’t know if my story will lead to tragedy, although a lot of crap happened. In any case, this is a love story, although love began in the middle of this shit, when I had already lost my eight-year-old son, and my home, and my studio in Sydney, where I was once quite famous - as famous as an artist can be in his own country. That year I could have received the Order of Australia - why not, just look who is being awarded it. But instead, my child was taken away from me, I was eviscerated by lawyers in divorce proceedings, and in conclusion I was sent to prison for trying to scratch out my masterpiece, which was classified as the “joint property of the spouses” ... Thus begins one of the most unexpected love stories in world literature. About the love of a woman for a man, brother for brother, people for art. In his latest novel, two-time Man Booker Prize-winning Australian author Peter Carey surprises the world once again. For the first time in Russian.