The Italian writer Alessandro Baricco is one of the most interesting novelists in Europe today. His exquisite books, which simultaneously resemble parables, thrillers, and prose poems, have already been translated into dozens of languages and are the basis for plays and films. Music, philosophy, architecture, painting, history, literature - this is where he draws endless themes for his works, this is where his heroes are born: geniuses and eccentrics, dreamers and extravagant inventors; all his heroes are remembered for a long time: Hervé Joncourt from “Silk”, Barltboom and Plasson from “Sea-Ocean”, Danny Budman from “The Legend of the Pianist” - a brilliant musician playing the piano in the middle of the ocean, as well as the eccentric writer Mr. Gwin , who flatly refuses to write books.