Shamil Idiatullin is a prose writer, journalist, and a two-time laureate of the "Big Book" prize. He is the author of novels such as "Fear Comes Too Late," "For the Elder," "Recent Times," and others. The novel "Ubyr" has been awarded the International Prize named after Vladislav Krapivin, as well as the "New Horizons" award (the first laureate in history) and the "Mystery and Horror of the Year" award according to the magazine "World of Fantasy." "Ubyr. Duology" is a mystical thriller featuring ordinary people and creatures from Tatar folklore; it is a book about parents and children, about lineage and memory, about growing up and maturing, about life and death. Ubyr is a terrifying abyss from ancient tales, senseless and merciless. It emerges from the forest once every thousand years. To devour. Everyone indiscriminately. And no one remembers how to defeat it. Nail, an ordinary urban teenager from Kazan in the 2010s, does not believe in fairy tales and immediately finds himself in a nightmarish scenario. He flees the city with his little sister, and now their reality consists of a damp forest, terrifying creatures, treacherous swamps, a strange witch, and ancient rituals. Only Nail's actions will determine whether they return home, save their parents, and the entire city. "Ubyr" perfectly plays on the strings of Tatar mythology, the image of ubyrly is incredibly frightening, disturbingly close, and inescapable. ...The question of "to read or not to read?" no longer exists. There are simply no others like ubyrly in the domestic bestiary of terrifying beings. The main fantastic books of the 21st century // World of Fantasy With such a book, it would not be shameful to pay homage to Lovecraft. And let him not have known anything about the Tatars, Ubyrs, or the Russian hinterland — his face would undoubtedly break into a smile. Darker And there are also two author postfaces in the book: about folkloric characters and the Tatar language. Illustrations accompanying the text by Dina Idiatullina.
