For this novel, Christophe Ono-di-Bio, a French writer and journalist originally from Normandy, received two of the most prestigious French literary awards - the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Renaudo Prize. “The Abyss” is a detective story, a love story, and a philosophical parable, the novel is so multi-layered and deep. But above all, this is a classic French existential novel - about the meaning of existence, about the liminal nature of human existence and human essence. As a journalist, Cesar traveled all over the world, saw terrible destruction, looked death in the eyes, observed the brilliance and futility of secular society. He was tired of the world and its disastrous vanity. But one day he met Paz - a mysterious, passionate and indomitable Spanish woman, suffocating in old Europe, who turned to one big museum. And his life was filled with meaning again. Until he was informed that the body of a woman similar to his Paz had been found on the deserted Arabian coast. Why was she there? What or who were you looking for where there are no people? Why did you run away from civilization? Trying to understand the mystery of his wife, Cesar unravels the history of their relationship, looks into the abyss on the edge of which Paz stood, hoping to see answers there. “The Abyss” is a novel about the decline of European civilization, about the thirst for fresh wind, about man’s desire to merge with eternity.< /p>