“Magnolia. 12 Days” is the first truly realistic, truly “Russian” novel by Anatoly Toss. As always happens in Toss’s books, “Magnolia...” is filled with revelation and psychologism, humor and drama, deep thoughts and lyrics - and all this is masterfully mixed into a dynamic, suspenseful plot. “Magnolia...” is a book about all of us, about our lives, recent and present. The novel, without a doubt, will captivate both twenty and thirty-year-old readers, and those whose youth passed at the end of the last, twentieth century. After all, all our quests, values, experiences, victories - they, one way or another, remain unchanged over time and, without being devalued, remain with us forever.