About the book: 2017 / For the first time in Russian - one of the brightest novels of 2016, “Book of the Year” according to the New York Times. In terms of historical scope and lyricism, Outlander has been compared to Anthony Dorr's novel All the Light We Cannot See, and in terms of psychological intensity - with Emma Donoghue's The Room. So, meet the twin sisters Pearl and Stasya. Pearl Zamorska is responsible for the sad, the good , the past. Stasia Zamorska must take on the funny, bad, future. In the fall of 1944, the sisters, along with their mother and grandfather, end up in Auschwitz. In the hell of a concentration camp, twelve-year-old girls find salvation in a secret language and secret games, in an amazing reserve of internal strength. Having become Dr. Mengele's test subjects in a camp block called the "Menagerie", they receive certain privileges, but experience horrors unknown to others. Even the cruelest hand of fate is powerless to separate the twins…