Harry White hopes to get rich, have a career, live with a charming wife and cute children in a big house. He succeeds in all this, but the dark force does not allow Harry to enjoy what he has achieved. A prosperous manager is obsessed with forbidden desires: he longs to copulate, steal, kill!

For the first time in Russian - a novel by Hubert Selby (1928–2004), author of the famous books “Last Turn to Brooklyn” and “Requiem for a Dream” .

Everything in Harry's life is arranged in such a way that he cannot complain about external circumstances. He has nice parents, a perfect marriage, a great job, all his dreams come true. But he chooses evil, the dark path to self-destruction. And his death is inevitable.

Hubert Selby

Selby belongs to the first rank of American novelists. Read his books and you will understand America's suffering.

The New York Times Book Review