About the book: 2023 / Ekaterina Manoilo’s debut novel, which long before the book’s release attracted close attention from literary reviewers and critics, and also received the Lyceum Prize named after Alexandra Pushkina. The heroine of the novel Katya - the daughter of a Russian and a Kazakh - lives in a small border town, and these two cultures had an equal influence on the formation of her personality: contradictory, complex, bright. She leaves for Moscow because of a deep personal tragedy, but it is impossible to escape from her native place forever: they attract, force her to return at least for a short time and try 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 most often lies..