The Life of Anselm, an architect, is rich in events and images against the background of a quaint medieval city. What inspires the protagonist? Disregarding his life at a horizontal landmark level for the sake of creating his own Vertical of Spirit. Does he make his soul like a rock trying to turn his body into bloodless stone? Like a medieval European minstrel’s song, the novel plunges the reader into a whirlwind of flamboyant situations.
Hiding in a village cut off from the outside world, a pagan community has strict laws established by a druid, where disobedience is penalized by death. A young man, Pagey, an orphan raised by a beekeeper, lives a life according to the rules like every-one else until strangers appear in the village. The world ceases to be the same. Within a year, from Samhain to Samhain, Pagey changes, revealing and realizing macabre mysteries of this miniature ‘Paradise’ and the secret of his birth.
A man with a mythical name and sealed lips goes into the unknown. Mystery of Primorye penetrates into him through A – Airport and a voice from a voice recorder, B – Bagulnik flowers and Bays with the ancient Chinese names; C – the city of Vladivostok surrounded by the ocean, where one can sometimes get lost on edge of reality and fiction, as if in an inaccurate reflection of sea water… Will we find out what really happened? Can we dare to get to the last letter of the alphabet?
