About the book: 2022 / Rübetzal is an ancient German spirit of the mountains who can help a lost traveler if he likes him. Or it may lead to his death. Marianna Ionova’s novel put the form of an epic into the form of a trilogy. Ionova selected stories about the connection between man and the interior of the Earth. This connection works differently in each destiny. The story that gives the title to the entire book perhaps most clearly shows how geology can be not only a profession, but a mystical purpose... Ingo Huber has been collecting minerals since childhood. And years later, during the Second World War, having gone through American captivity and camp mines in Siberia, he became Igor Ivanovich. Married to a Russian, who adopted a Russian girl, who became dearer to him than his own son, left in Germany. Continuing to faithfully serve science, he yearned for an unlived life... and was he really Ingo Huber or is there a secret of someone else’s personality here? Where did Rübetzal take him? Marianna Ionova graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of the Russian Academy of Education and the Faculty of Art History from the Russian State University for the Humanities. She has been published in the magazines “Zinziver”, “Children of Ra”, “Arion”, “Air”, “Znamya”, “New World”. Author of several prose books published in Russia and the Czech Republic. Lives in Moscow. With the essay “Garden Inhabitants” she became a laureate of the 2011 Debut Prize in the “essay” category. She is the author of several prose books published in Russia and the Czech Republic. Lives in Moscow. Nominated for the National Bestseller Award».