Oleg Zayonchkovsky’s prose received recognition easily and immediately - his first book “Sergeev and the Town” was included in the shortlists of the “Russian Booker” and “National Bestseller” awards. His name is firmly written on today's literary map. Readers and critics alike seem to love his remarkable storytelling skills. In the new novel, the hero is a writer. The author of other people's destinies, he does not even try to unravel his own, watching with truly Buddhist calm as his wife leaves for someone else, one of those “cooler”. Suddenly, the love triangle takes on strange shapes and the winner turns out to be... the abandoned husband. “Is happiness possible?”