The debut novel by Ekaterina Manoylo, which long before the book’s publication attracted the close attention of literary reviewers and critics, and also won the Alexander Pushkin Lyceum Prize.

The heroine of the novel, Katya, is the daughter of a Russian and a Kazakh father. She lives in a small border town, and these two cultures have had an equal influence on the formation of her personality: contradictory, complex, and vibrant. She leaves for Moscow to escape a deep personal tragedy, but it is impossible to escape from her native land forever: it attracts her, forces her to return, at least for a short time, and tries to break her.

This is a novel about violence and freedom, happiness and dependence, death and life triumphing over it. A book about the rebellion of children against their fathers, in which true love is most often hidden.