The Handwriting of Leonardo

"…He insisted that she was an angel. Funny, isn't it? Not in the sense that she’s some kind of celestial being, but rather, her nature is akin to certain beings that exist in the collective consciousness as all sorts of... angels and archangels… and other heavenly kin. People believe in them because from time to time such beings truly appear on earth among humans..."
She writes in a mirror-like handwriting that makes the uninitiated dizzy. She has brilliant abilities in mathematics and physics, she is a brilliant acrobat, an incredible stuntwoman, she knows everything there is to know about mirrors. She can see the past and glimpse the future. Kiev, Moscow, Frankfurt, Indianapolis, Montreal — she flies through life, unmoored and unfree, seeing more than an ordinary person could ever imagine, — and hates herself for it and the one who endowed her with such a gift.
The mystical novel by Dina Rubina "The Handwriting of Leonardo" is the story of a person who did not want to be a demiurge. The story of a woman who rejects the heavenly gift with magnificent disgust.