Resurrection from the Dead

Daniel Berger – a prose writer, author of the novel "Coffee with Pepper" ("Russian Prize") and a collection of stories "About the Unclean and More", a documentary filmmaker. The unrivaled stylist and mystifier Daniel Berger returns with a new novel.

Strange... things are happening in the Siberian town of Kainsk – secret meetings, murders of Komsomol members, a fire in the library. The legendary Marietta Sergeevna Shainyan arrives from the capital's "Izvestia" on a journalistic assignment – she will uncover the truth, even if it means diving deep into a clay hill, plunging into oblivion and remembering life among the Sumerian gods.
The detective is intertwined with a love story, Assyrian scripts alternate with headlines from Soviet newspapers, and the beautiful young man Dumuzzi, beloved of the goddess Inanna, is doomed to a long torment – an orphaned life in a working-class town…

This book is about the eternity of evil and its attractiveness, about the temptation of immortality and about the weakness of people and gods in the face of this temptation.