Beatrice Hartley, a recent graduate of a prestigious private school, is grieving the death of her lover, with whom she studied together. Despite the fact that a year has passed, the cause of his death remains undisclosed. According to the official version, Jim, a talented poet, musician, the pride of the school and the soul of the company, committed suicide literally on the eve of his final exams. Beatrice can't believe it. The desire to get to the truth brings her to the birthday party of her once best friend, whose relationship - as with other school friends - has come to naught. The reunion of former friends is not going very smoothly anyway, and then a strange old man who appears out of nowhere adds fuel to the fire. For no apparent reason, he declares that everyone present is dead, or rather, stuck in a fracture in time a moment before his own death. And only one of them is destined to survive, but who exactly will have to decide for themselves... A new novel from the author of “Night Cinema,” perhaps one of the most amazing bestsellers of recent years. However, Marisha Pessl made a splash throughout the world with her first novel (“Some Issues in the Theory of Catastrophes”), sending several chapters to the literary agent of her idol Jonathan Franzen, followed by an agreement with the publishing house, which offered an unprecedentedly high advance for a beginning author, the first lines in bestseller lists and translation into many languages of the world.

For the first time in Russian!