Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego is a Russian writer, grandson of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and a pupil of a Soviet boarding school for disabled children. His documentary confessional novel “White on Black” (Russian Booker Prize for 2003), translated into dozens of languages, created a sensation among the reading public, circles from which are still spreading. Having broken fifteen years of silence, in his new, third According to the novel, the author is trying to solve the problem: is it possible for a person who has known pain and humiliation, who has gone through difficult and cruel trials, to find a place on earth that will finally bring him peace and tranquility.