About the book: 2024 / Seventeen-year-old Katya from Barnaul dreams of studying at the conservatory in Novosibirsk, but fails the exam. I don’t want to go home, so Katya randomly enters an agricultural college. Of course, you won’t become a singer there, but you will have a new life in a big city, new friends, a room in a dorm. But the neighbor Lenochka behaves strangely: she disappears in the middle of the school year and returns two months later completely different, withdraws into herself. One day she decides to trust Katya and tell her what happened in a remote Siberian village on the night of the winter solstice. Who is this book for? For fans of modern Russian prose. For readers of mysticism and magical realism. For those who are interested in the culture of Russian regions.