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"God is tired of the world, like a bad theater, where the troupe is arrogant and untalented, the chorus is silent, and the steps of the altar are forever stained with blood. That's why God hasn't come here for a long time." So says Moras, the hero of a novel written twenty years ago but now resonating as a warning. This is a book about navigating foreign, forbidden waters, the diary of a man convinced that free thought, and therefore life, is possible only in spite of itself; everything else is merely chemical processes. It's a travelogue in which the heroes participate in an ancient mystery and perish because other possibilities turn out to be opportunities for others.

Lena Eltang's first book was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and the National Bestseller Award and has since been reprinted several times. "A bizarre blend of European cryptodetective fiction (in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Borges) with the domestic bliss of the poor in spirit." This is what critics wrote about the novel, calling it a masterpiece and the best Russian novel of recent years.
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