The famous German writer Andreas Eschbach received worldwide recognition ten years ago. Since then, each new Eschbach novel has met with enthusiastic public interest and has been translated into many languages around the world. Russian readers know the name of the writer from the novel “Video Jesus,” which shared the success of “The Da Vinci Code.” “A Special Gift” is a book that made conservative Germany shudder! It instantly became a bestseller.

...When you are seventeen, you are the most ordinary girl, you live in the most ordinary German town and study in the most ordinary gymnasium, and suddenly, riding around the city on a bicycle, you notice that there are police and There are so many more cars around than you've ever seen in your entire life, don't you just wonder how this could be connected to you? At least, I looked around in surprise the whole way and thought: wow, the bank must have been robbed. Or hostages were taken. And this is in our provincial town! Sensation.