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The most famous novel by the writer. A psychological detective. According to Andriy Kurkov, this is the first time he has ever enjoyed a Ukrainian detective novel, which, thanks to its ironic and tragic tones, not only holds the reader's attention firmly until the last line, but also reproduces our present better than any 'high' novel.

A 37-year-old beautiful woman, Mariya Khripovich, an employee of an international foundation for the support of gifted children, dies under the wheels of a freight train in a small town in eastern Ukraine. Her friends, lovers and colleagues in Kyiv, bewildered by her unexpected death, launch their own investigation. But the outcome of their search does not fit into any classical schemes.

Finding young talents is the goal of Mariya Khripovich, an employee of Gifted Children International. The children's style is devoid of mannerism, and the mind of mercantilism - there are only feelings, naked on paper. An adult can do this in difficult times, like Anatoly, for example: he can desperately play the violin in the subway without asking for anything. That's why he is the only love of the evil careerist Khripovich, but not for long: soon they will both die.

Why was the beautiful and successful Mariana killed? The answer is: for condemning imitation, for hatred of it. A vulgar plagiarism naively claimed to be an enthusiastic viewer. It didn't work thanks to Khripovich - and she paid the price, dying under the wheels of a lorry. Friends and colleagues don't believe it could have been an accident, and they begin an investigation. Fascinating and mystical. A trampled funeral wreath, horrifying sounds, cigarette-burned paintings, a stabbed musician, and more and more .... Then it changes - as if another person is writing: mystery, eeriness, nervousness creates the atmosphere of a mystical detective.