“Fox Fords” is a new novel by Anna Starobinets, an adventure mystical thriller about a cursed place lost on the Russian-Manchu border, in which Chinese were-foxes meet Soviet officers, and fugitive prisoners meet a Taoist who holds the secret of immortality. An exciting and terrible journey into the heart of darkness, where everyone finds what they deserve: some - love, others - death, and absolutely everyone - their only true fate, destined either by God or the devil.