Daniel Wallace is a modern American classic, a worthy successor to the traditions of Ray Bradbury and Saul Bellow, Harper Lee and John Updike. His debut novel Big Fish served as the basis for Tim Burton's film, which starred Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito. The devil in Wallace's new novel is white as chalk, lives in a provincial hotel suite, knows a lot of card tricks and calls himself Mr. Sebastian. Ten-year-old Henry Walker, upset that his little sister began to spend all her time not with him, but with a stray dog, whom she named after the movie star Joan Crawford, learns the magical arts from Mr. Sebastian and makes him a blood oath, a magician's oath - never to betray the secret of any illusion and do not even talk about magic with those who are not trained in the secret arts. The next day, Mr. Sebastian disappears - along with Henry's sister, and the boy makes a vow to himself: to become the greatest illusionist in the world, save his sister and take revenge on the devil. For the first time in Russian.