Michael Ondaatje thundered throughout the world with “The English Patient” - an amazing bestseller that captivated readers on all continents, was awarded the most prestigious Booker Prize in the English-speaking world and served as the basis for a famous movie that received nine Oscars. Ondaatje had to wait a long time for his next novel, but the wait paid off handsomely. So, meet Anil Tissera, a native of Ceylon, educated in England and the USA, who managed to break more than one heart and returned to her homeland as an anthropologist and forensic expert. The international organization for the protection of human rights has instructed her to identify the masterminds of the campaign of terror tormenting Sri Lanka - an ancient country with centuries-old traditions, pushed into tragic modernity... For the first time in Russian.