If you can only get married once, and divorce means inevitable death for both... If marriage is not just the cohabitation of two single people, but a merging into one being... You can find yourself in such a world by plunging into the novel “Postcards from Loneliness.” In In the world of the novel, a man and a woman can live in ordinary marriages, or they can undergo a fusion ceremony and begin to see each other’s thoughts. But knowing your partner as he is is not always a good thing. Sometimes it's really scary. So much so that civilization is trying to abandon the traditional marriage-merger, inventing the so-called conscious loneliness. The main character of the book lives in the middle of the ocean, on coral islands, and in spite of everything, dreams of a traditional, real family, which is possible only after an ancient ritual. After another visit home and communication with his parents, who spent their entire lives in unity, he suddenly decides to end single marriages. In a world where people haven’t really gotten married for a long time, this will turn out to be more difficult than it seems...