For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by John Crowley, author of the tetralogy “Egypt”, dedicated to the philosophy of magic, and the famous “Little, Big”; Neil Gaiman called this book one of his favorites, and Ursula Le Guin called it “a truly unique novel that single-handedly revolutionized the genre.” Darr Dubrauli is no ordinary crow. He was the first of all the crows to get his own name and taught the rest of the crows how to arrange it so that if some bird “does something important, something brave,” its memory will not die. And Darr Dubrauli travels not only between Imr (the human world) and Ka (the kingdom of the crows) - the road to Other Lands is also open to him, where the Most Precious Thing is hidden; whoever finds it will live forever. This was taught to Darra Dubrauli by the Druid priestess Fox Cap; and, reborn again, like a phoenix, Darr repeats this path each time - with a medieval monk known as Brother, with the One-Eared Storyteller from the Crow Clan Indian tribe, with the medium Anna Kuhn, who seeks to deliver comforting news to the widows of the Civil War, like her. from those who are no longer there... “Ka is an exemplary example of the incredibly touching, deeply personal work that a great artist sometimes produces at the end of his career” (The Washington Post).