For the first time in Russian - a new saga about memory and fate from the brilliant John Irving, author of such worldwide bestsellers as “The World According to Garp” and “Hotel New Hampshire”, “The Cider House Rules” and “Son of the Circus”, “ A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "Men Not in Her Life". When Juan Diego grows up, he will go to the USA and become a famous writer. And in a Mexican childhood, fate leads the “junkyard reader” from the Home of Lost Children orphanage to the “Diva Circus” with its trained lions and trapeze artists. Juan Diego has a younger sister, Lupe, and she can read minds - but only he understands what she says. "She's usually right about the past... She doesn't read the future as accurately." All the tragedies of the past are open to her - but she is trying to prevent the disaster that is yet to come. And so, many years later, Juan Diego leaves New York for the Philippines, where his dreams and memories will finally collide with the future. Surprisingly, next to him is always one of the pair of mysterious beauties, mother and daughter, whom he met on the plane... “From the first to the last page, this novel is permeated with kindness and faith in love, in the redemptive power of humanity, not constrained by conventions and social institutions "(The New York Times Book Review).