For the first time in Russian! The novel is the winner of the Booker Prize in 2023, which is already being called “Irish 1984” and “the new Handmaid’s Tale.” As the Booker Committee wrote in its recommendation, this "radical dystopia... vividly depicts a mother's determination to protect her family at a time when liberal democracy... is sliding inexorably and frighteningly into totalitarianism." One evening, microbiologist Eilish Stack, a mother of four, answers a knock on her door. . On the threshold are two operatives of the newly formed State National Security Service who would like to talk with Eilish’s husband, an activist in the teachers’ union. And after a protest demonstration, her husband disappears - and Eilish finds herself captive to the logic of a nightmare: public institutions are crumbling before our eyes, the government has turned a quiet suburb into a war zone, and in order to save her family, Eilish is forced to decide on the impossible... “A novel-warning about... It's so easy to lose the freedoms we take for granted, but the author's greatest achievement is that the incredible events described seem absolutely real." (Sunday Independent).