Pretty Woman

A new novel from the cycle “Court Cases” by one of the best-known creative duos—Tatiana Ustinova and Pavel Astakhov—about beauty and youth. Should you turn to plastic surgery, or is everyone unique precisely with their own “signature”—those very wrinkles in the corners of the eyes, huge cheeks, a non-classical nose shape—everything that makes a person one in a million? Should youth be held on to at any cost, or can you grow older beautifully?

Judge Elena Kuznetsova faces these questions in the case of Eleonora Sushkina, whom—so she claims—was disfigured in a famous plastic surgery clinic. But was everything really the way it seems?..