The heroines of Muriel Barbery's new novel “The Life of Elves” are two girls Clara and Maria, these are two incredible destinies touched by magic. One lives in Spain, in a village lost in the Abruzzo mountains, the other in a Burgundian village. Both are mysteriously connected to the world of elves. One is a talented pianist, capable of penetrating into the invisible through music, the other is endowed with a special gift for sensing the secrets of nature, reading its signs, and sensing the presence of invisible creatures. The girls learn about a terrible threat hanging over the human world. Clara and Maria, who have never met each other, establish a connection with each other and, joining forces, enter into a battle, on the outcome of which depends the lives of people close to them, and the very existence of humanity. From the author of “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”! The long-awaited new novel by the magnificent Muriel Barbery “The Life of Elves” is for the first time in Russian!