Publishers began hunting for this book even before it was finished - individual parts posted on the Internet collected hundreds of rave reviews. Everyone wanted to know about the adventures of an extraordinary girl living in an amazing land, among dogs and horses. Gloria Mu retained a child’s acuity of perception - she experiences both bad and good as if she had never left the country of tall trees, strong people and huge animals, a gentle country, harsh and beautiful. And the reader, through her eyes, looks not at a glossy photograph, but at a wet, shiny watercolor, at a bright green, dazzling blue, at an immortal red horse galloping across the eternal meadows, at a child’s silhouette falling to its mane, and thinks about one thing: “Hold on, girl, don’t fall.”