Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s book “Nagaina, or Altered Time” is full of mystical plots, those phenomena when the soul comes into contact with the eternal world that existed before us and suddenly arises. One day it happened that L. S. Petrushevskaya, the only Russian-language author, received the World Fantasy Award - a world prize in the field of science fiction. But none of our science fiction writers found this writer on their list of “theirs.” Apparently, we have to admit: we have a completely different area of fantasy - the book you hold in your hands.