Down the roads of a fairy-tale world walks a man with a sword. The world is unstable: wars and magic, underground creatures and forgotten peoples, star battles in the night sky, and trees that swallow time. Who is he, Stokrat—what does he want, what is he looking for? Will he find a means to preserve this world? Will he save the girl with the strange name — the World?
A new “novel in stories” by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko balances, like a tightrope walker, on the border between fantasy and a parable. Decide for yourselves what is in it more.