For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by the renowned author of Fine Work and Velvet Claws, also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This time, the writer preferred wartime and post-war England to Victorian England. Several stories of selfless love and involuntary betrayal permeate the entire fabric of the novel with intricately intertwined threads, and the whimsical chronology of the narrative forces you to turn to the last page and immediately return to the first.