J Nesbø, the Norwegian writer and leading exponent of Nordic noir, never ceases to amaze. Breaking stereotypes, disregarding the rules of the genre, he shows a person as frankly as if we ourselves were looking in the mirror, afraid to admit to ourselves: it’s me. “There is and will not be any censorship in my head,” Nesbø states. He never reveals his plans in advance, and until recently it was only known that the writer was working on two collections of short prose. The first of them included seven crime stories, united by the theme of jealousy. In the second, Nesbø addresses the topic of the death of humanity. Our civilization is dying slowly but inevitably, the foundations of society are collapsing, people are losing their human appearance - but these are too general phrases for such an unpredictable, ambiguous, paradoxical author. Nesbø, like no one else, knows how to maneuver between topics, change perspective, he either transforms into his heroes, or studies them detachedly, and in their actions against the backdrop of everyday life or, on the contrary, in a completely fantastic situation, the fatal contradictions of the modern worldview, moral relativism, leading humanity into a dead end of self-destruction. It is human nature to make mistakes, but while he is rushing between black and white on the edge of an abyss, he has a chance of salvation...For the first time in Russian!