Are you ready to meet wonderful heroes who will die in your arms? Karol has decided never to leave the house and collects women's shoes. Kai, a late-night radio DJ, is driving home, the elevator opens, and Kai realizes that he is in the wrong world. Edmund, the only heir to a huge fortune, is left alone on the street at Christmas. A composer and private detective goes to a town high in the mountains to investigate the mysterious murders of children, which are repeated every twenty-five years... Difficult text, sophisticated syntax - all this is not for lazy readers who are accustomed to the “understandable” - “but here there are solid commas, this is three-page proposal!”; yes, that’s how they write, they can do that too - with descriptions and details that sometimes seem overly flowery and deliberate: at the most interesting place the author can suddenly stop and start telling you what kind of things are hanging in the closet - and you stand and listen, because this... is impossibly beautiful. Because these things: a closet full of dresses, a cup on the table, the eyes opposite them - will later turn out to be the most important thing. A beautiful and dark novel in the best traditions of fairy-tale Gothic, large, dense and sparkling. The book is published in the author's edition