The Property of Memory

October 1993. Against the backdrop of dramatic events in the country, former investigator Varvara Samovarova experiences a sudden fleeting passion. In our days, filled with new upheavals, Varvara is haunted by past dreams, stretching back to fateful October...
Whom does she interrogate in each of these dreams? What is more real — these dreams or the archives revealing old family secrets? And what dangerous stranger has been stalking Varvara for a year?

«This is a novel about the hidden life of the soul, about revived details, about strange dreams that resemble reality. About broken destinies. About what memory fails to retain, but the subconscious keeps... And about love — real and impossible love, passionate and detached.
How often do shadows of the past, which we would like to forget, rise up in memory?
Or do we only remember what we want to remember?
And what do we truly know about our past and about ourselves?
The beloved character of readers in Elizarova’s novels “Black Lilac”, “Cardboard Walls”, “Night Sun”, “Dog Paradise”, Varvara Sergeevna Samovarova, a former investigator, is once again unraveling a chain of strange events in which she found herself...» — Olga Yarikova, editor, illustrator, translator, and publicist