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Is it possible to change fate, to influence reality? Is everything that happens to a person inevitable and predetermined, and, ultimately, why? The novel-parable by the prominent Ukrainian writer is a rethinking of the eternal story. It is about the chosen ones who are initiated into secret knowledge and those who guard science. The text combines stories from different time periods: the uncertain and the long, the past and the future, which invisibly flow into each other. This is the author's version of the life of the community of the first Christians after the crucifixion of Christ, before the Roman Empire accepted Christianity. But first of all, the drama of a woman's unrequited feelings for her husband unfolds before us. A mature couple, an author of women's novels and a computer programmer, are experiencing a family crisis. Twelve years ago, they still did not understand what was really happening to them and why. The main characters seem to be in a mysterious and fatal connection with the otherworldly world of shadows, which they can neither break nor find the reasons for the key events of their lives. Just as Per Lagerkvist reinterpreted biblical stories, the writer seeks to answer the rhetorical questions of existence through her work: why and why not? «I do not interfere with my work,» Lagerkvist said. Instead, the characters of Yevhenia Kononenko experience that even without interfering and only observing the event, we still interfere with the course of things. In the end, the readers will unravel the miracles, symbols and signs of The Fireplace Orgy, allusions to world mythology, intertextual turns of phrase from world classics, including drama.