For the first time in Russian - a unique product of collective creativity: a book written by the modern classic Cornelia Funke based on the famous film by Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro "Pan's Labyrinth" and illustrated by the master of fairy-tale illustration Allen Williams. In this fantasy of truly epic proportions, the reader will meet mythical tricksters and bloodthirsty monsters, cruel soldiers and brave rebels, and a lost princess who has not lost hope of finding her way home... A word from Cornelia Funke herself: “Guillermo explained from the very beginning that he did not want to get a simple film retelling; he expected more from me. I didn’t want to change a single moment, because, in my opinion, this film is perfection. So I proposed adding ten sequences that tell the backstory of key moments in the film—Guillermo called them interludes. Everything else is magic. There’s probably something else that needs to be said. This is the first book I wrote in English. What can you find in the labyrinths..."