«Have you heard of the Ice Dragon? No? Now you will have to, there's no escaping it. Dragons come in different forms. Among them are the magnanimous, who are capable of compassion, the noble, who do not hurt the weak, and even the wise...» How to defeat your own dragon and what measures true human growth, why all the misfortunes happen in the world, and what begins when there is too much Beauty, you will learn from the Chinese and Japanese fairy tales of Boris Akunin. And to make the beauty even greater, and to make you smile while leafing through this book, the fairy tales have been illustrated by the artist Ekaterina Belyavskaya. After all, a smile softens and moistens the heart — it enriches with the element of «water», and water is life. As long as it hasn’t all flowed away, the heart will not dry out.
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