About the book: 2024 / Ekaterina Chirkova was born in Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University and a master's degree from the Faculty of Psychology at the Higher School of Economics. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia; practicing psychologist, art therapist. In the novel “I Don’t Know,” each chapter is a monologue about what has been lived and the past. Philology professor and ambitious prose writer Koltsov, his wife Lyolechka, whose main talent is creating home comfort (no one needs in their home), daughter Anna, searching for herself - each has their own story. "Literary packs" of the 1970s, studying at university in the 1990s, the dangers of paragliding, traveling through a real jungle in the 2020s; Moscow streets, cats, embroidered paintings, books and manuscripts. But the main ones are unspoken words and unlived feelings, longing for love and warmth..