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"The Hive" in the industrial zone. A forty-year-old artist living as a hermit in his studio. Models, poets, mistresses. Exhibitions and a creative crisis.

At first glance, it seems to be a typical sketch of the life of a provincial bohemian. But what is really happening?

In his new novel, Anatoliy Dnistrovyi shows the destruction of the "ivory tower" through the relationships of artists. Since Romantic times, it has embodied the mystery of creativity, the artist's egocentrism, and his distance from society, but in today's accelerated world it has become static, on the periphery, and living out its last days.