The undoubted classic of modern Western literature and one of its undisputed leaders plunges the reader into a mirror labyrinth of reflections: the fears from the children's books of the once popular writer Ted Cole suddenly take on flesh, and now the fabulous mole man turns into a real maniac killer, so that almost forty years later years old Ruth Cole, the writer's daughter, also a writer, while collecting material for a novel, became a witness to his brutal crime. But first and foremost, Irving's novel is about love. The atmosphere of condensed sensuality, love without shores and restrictions fills its pages with a certain magnetic force, turning the reader into a participant in a magical action.