About the book: 2023 / “My dear pet” - this is how the monologue of the accused begins before the court, but he addresses his beloved. He is 49, she is 14. This story is told by a veterinarian, a "child molester" who is obsessed with a farmer's daughter. She has wheat-white hair and a pitch-black imagination. The relationship between them is similar to the relationship between a predator and his prey, like love without love. She is a sweet animal to him, he is the only person who understands her. It is a dark, seething stream of thoughts, with chapters without a single line break and meandering sentences. Ambiguity is one of the strengths of this novel. Of course, as with Nabokov's Lolita, we are dealing with a very unreliable narrator here..