First time in Russian!
In Franck Thilliez’s novel “The Forest of Shadows” (2007), the elderly billionaire Arthur Daufre decides, with the help of an aspiring writer David Miller, to fulfill a long-standing dream: to resurrect a serial killer on the pages of a book—known by the nickname Executioner-125, named after the number of grams that were cut from the flesh of his future victims. As a result of this strange whim, David, his wife and their young daughter, as well as Daufre and his young lover, must spend an entire month in a remote German backwater at the heart of the Black Forest. Cold, snow, a chalet lost in the woods. The writer eagerly takes on the story of a psychopathic killer, but soon everyone realizes something strange is happening in the chalet—and that some doors definitely shouldn’t have been opened…