"Other drums" of Helen Элтанг are a psychological detective in a spirit Борхеса and Фаулза : grandiose linen in that a criminal plot united with a melodrama, and personality of criminal intrigues stronger, than secret of crime. Protagonist of novel - Костас Кайрис is a beginning writer, недоучившийся student, coming that to fall in love, appear complicit in business about murder, to inherit the familial state and get in лиссабонскую prison. Костас lives in a house, that him does not belong to, pants for the friend of childhood from that there always were one troubles, is sad on a father, that never seemed to him on eyes, loves the a long ago dead woman-aunt and holds an urn with her ash in a hat box. Thus he sits in a lone person for a crime that did not accomplish, and writes frank and passionate letters to the wife that the last time saw so a long ago, that could бы not to know, come she to him on an appointment."Other drums" are a плутовской novel of our time, talking about freedom and captivity, about love and enmity, about an error and seduction, written with a thick picturesque language requiring from a reader slow, perfect immersion and "complete death seriously". A book completes a trilogy, beginning "Escape of куманики", that critics named the best Russian novel in the last few years, and proceeding a novel the "Lithoidal maples", awarded to the bonus "New literature".