About the book: year / Extremely tough, mercilessly beautiful prose, where the story of the plastic surgeon Khripunov is intertwined with the fate of Hassan ibn Sabbah, the Persian Old Man of the Mountain and the founder of the sect of assassins, where no one is anyone doesn’t like it, where everyone is firmly possessed by their demons and without any hope of salvation. This is a novel about madness, death, evil and... beauty. And that not every desire is worth fulfilling.