The novel "Bright Sadness" combines three detective-romantic stories: "Death", "Love" and "Fate", which show the development of the fate of the main characters. Each of them can be read as an independent literary work without compromising understanding. The entire narrative is permeated with a network of inserted short stories, presenting funny or educational incidents from the lives of the heroes. Thus, the complete picture of the novel, like a puzzle, is made up of small and large completed fragments.