"Maybe he's in the dark of the spring park, and Tasia, bent over a book in the lamplight and waiting for him, probably waiting, and the cat, breathing softly under his jacket and it's unclear whether she loves him or not, but he hopes she loves him, are just shadows in a random combination of the unknown. the pattern. Or maybe this pattern is not accidental at all, and someone knows, and his path through the Tiergarten in the dark is not accidental either, and he himself and everyone he loves are part of this pattern, this free city, this extraordinary pattern. Who knows!" is a new novel by Anna Berseneva about the new people of the Berlin palimpsest. Their lives in the troubled, whirlwind time are strangely intertwined with the fates of the people of the "golden twenties" of the last century.