For the first time in Russian - a novel by Colm Toibin, author of “The Wizard” and “Brooklyn”, the book is a finalist for the Booker Prize, winner of the IMPAC International Dublin Prize, “an exquisite illumination of the inner world of Henry James” (New York Times). A modern classic pays tribute to one of the pillars of American and world literature, the forerunner of modernism. An outstanding artist, a master of subtle psychological portraiture, is shown in all his vulnerability and loneliness - from the failure of the production of his play "Guy Domville" at London's Drury Lane Theater, while in the neighboring theater the audience applauds the premiere of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" to the visit to the provincial English town of Rye, where James settled in his declining years, his brother, the philosopher William James, and with numerous reminiscences to key episodes in the biography of the famous voluntary exile, who preferred London, Florence and Paris to his native Boston... “A quiet masterpiece, a work of extraordinary seriousness and participation, revealing to us genius in all its human fullness. And this deep novel was written – let’s not be afraid – masterfully” (New York Observer).