For the first time in Russian - the famous autobiographical novel about the struggle with mental illness and its successful overcoming, a modern classic. “It was not my intention to write a medical history,” Joanne Greenberg noted in a recent afterword, “but to show what it is like for a person to be separated from the world by a bottomless abyss.” So, meet Deborah. From early childhood, she painstakingly feigned normality; no one was supposed to know that she lived in the magical land of Ir, that she was being pursued by the Synclite of the Chosen, that the Falling God Anterrabey was encouragingly making fun of her as she burned in the flames. But one day the load turns out to be too great - and Deborah can’t stand it. She spends three years in a clinic for the mentally ill; For three years - one psychotherapy session after another - she has been trying to return to reality. But is this humanly possible? And if she can, what will it cost her? The book went through many reprints, sold millions of copies around the world, served as the basis for a film of the same name and even a musical hit.