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Each book by Anna Starobinets becomes an event. With her dark gothic stories, Starobinets won the title of “queen of Russian horror” and “domestic Stephen King.” Her prose immediately began to be compared with the works of R. Bradbury and A. Asimov, L. Petrushevskaya and even F. Kafka. A children's diary, with funny mistakes and slips, gradually develops into a confession of a real monster, who can be killed, but cannot be defeated. Strange people become scary, while scary people turn out to be only strange. Abysses full of stars open up not in the sky or in the earth, but in the brain.