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Overview of the book The plot of the events in the novel of Mikhail Shishkin, winner of the Booker Prize, includes different time periods and different countries: during the civil war, current Europe, and even ancient Persia. The fates of the narrative heroes intersect, an impossible mutual process occurs among them, and love leads them on the paths of their lives — love that is happy, dramatic, and different. If there is love, no one can make it disappear. This is the main idea of the novel, which won the "Most Popular National Novel" award. Born in 1961 in Moscow, Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin graduated from the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Languages at the Social Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. He worked as an English teacher at a school. His first prose works were published under the title "A Lesson in Calligraphy" in the magazine "Znamya" (Issue 1, 1993), becoming one of the magazine's regular writers. "Znamya" was the first to publish his novel "Everyone Waits for One Night," the novella "The Blind Musician," and also the novel "The Conquest of Ismail," which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1999. He lives in Zurich, where he published a historical literary guide titled "Switzerland-Russia." Publisher: Al-Mada Author: Mikhail Shushkin Year of publication: 2020 Number of pages: 598