Ilya Boyashov is a prose writer, laureate of the National Bestseller Award, author of the books “Muri’s Way”, “Tankman, or the White Tiger”, “Eden”, “Jazz”, “Armada”. The hero of the new story “Portulan” obsessed with music. She leads him from barracks poverty to the palace on Rublyovka, which he needs only as a repository for a huge number of records and for the implementation of an incredible plan - to listen to them all at the same time... “Shusai Honinobo of the writer Kawabata, Nabokov’s Luzhin, Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby - who are they? Geniuses? Originals? Or just people living in their own space? “Portulan” is a story about a person’s right to such “madness,” a right that no one can take away from him” (Ilya Boyashov). The book includes the stories “Portulan” and “The Stone Woman.”