For the first time in Russian is the debut book of Anthony Dorr, author of the amazing international bestseller “All the Light We Cannot See.” Eight touching, poetic stories about eternal and insoluble problems, about endless nature and man’s place in it, about the incomprehensibility of love and the unbearability of loss. Here the blind collector of shells can determine the variety of each specimen with absolute accuracy only by feeling their curves, knots and folds; here a young girl, touching a hibernating bear, can feel that he is dreaming; here a paleontologist learns to run across Africa to catch up with the wild woman of his dreams.