The Book of Love

Laura, Daniel, and Mo come to in Mr. Anabin's music classroom. Nearly a year ago, they disappeared without a trace from the seaside town of Lavz-End, but in reality — they died. However, they managed to find their way back from the realm of death, not really understanding how. In the world of the living, not everyone is destined to remain, and the first trial is to master magic, to learn to perform miracles. The second is to remember what happened to them. And the main thing is to survive in the clash of forces of truly divine power that have gathered around Lavz-End, as soon as they sensed that someone in town activated an ancient artifact, appearing in the form of a cup, a dagger, or a coin... For the first time in Russian — the long-awaited debut novel of a recognized master of short form, finalist of the Pulitzer Prize, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (“grant for geniuses”) and numerous prestigious literary awards: “Hugo”, three “Nebulas”, O. Henry award, memorial awards of T. Sturgeon and J. Tiptree Jr., Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker awards, the “Locus” magazine award, World Fantasy Award, etc. “The Book of Love” is already on the shortlist for the “Nebula” award-2025.