Lion and Cinnamon

Yuri Buidа is the author of the novels “Thief, Spy and Murderer”, “Gift of Speech” and “The Fifth Kingdom”, the collection of stories “Prussian Bride” and other books published in Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Norway, and a laureate of the “Big Book” prize.

The novel “Lion and Cinnamon” is a graceful and mischievous phantasmagoria, whose action swiftly dances through the streets of Moscow, Paris, Rome and northern Italy, about what one can find at night in the “Tsaritsyno” park or in an abandoned military warehouse in the industrial zone near the MKAD, about a battle with a demon in the guise of a burning orangutan at the top of Montmartre and about the traces of an ancient battle of the Cimmerian Legion in the Luxembourg Garden, about the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of children in the vicinity of Verona and about medieval sects, about the study of grimoires and manuscripts in the secret archive of the Vatican library and about a glass hovering church in the mountains near Lake Garda... ...But the main thing is about the infallible knowledge: making a deal with the devil is worth it only for the sake of a woman.

“Freedom is immoral, freedom is the prey of the shameless. The world opens to those who dare to take the first step, but belongs only to those who take the second.”