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Dina Rubina has achieved the impossible - she has combined three different genres: an engaging almost gothic novel about dolls and doll makers, uniting the poles of history and art; a family detective story and a psychological drama, traced from vivid childhood and youth memories to gray hair. Passions here also "tear" the heroes apart. Man and doll, the doll maker and the rebellious doll, a person as a doll - in the hands of fate, in the hands of the Creator, subject to family inheritance - this deep and multi-dimensional metaphor is presented by the author in various facets, without resorting to straightforward analogies. Rubina's mastery of literary "painting", both landscape and portrait, is, as always, at its height: as if you are eating slices of fragrant delicious air and choking with pleasure.