Daniel Berger, novelist, author of the novel "Coffee with Pepper" (Russian Prize) and a collection of short stories "About evil spirits and not only," directed by a documentary filmmaker. The consummate stylist and hoaxer Daniel Berger returns with a new novel.Strange things are happening in the Siberian town of Kainsk — secret meetings, murders of Komsomol members, a fire in the library. The legendary Marietta Sergeevna Shainyan arrives from Izvestia in the capital with a journalistic assignment — she will get to the truth, even if for this she had to dive deep into a clay hill, plunge into oblivion and remember life among the Sumerian gods.The detective story is intertwined with a love story, Assyrian writings are interspersed with editorials of Soviet newspapers, and the beautiful young man Dummuzi, beloved of the goddess Inanna, is doomed to a long torture — an orphan life in a working-class town.…The book is about the eternity of evil and its attraction, about the temptation of immortality and about the weakness of people and gods before this temptation. – Writer, documentary filmmaker and inimitable hoaxer Daniel Berger returns with a new book!– Daniel Berger is the author of the novel "Coffee with Pepper" and the collection of short stories "About evil Spirits and not only", winner of the prestigious "Russian Prize".– The Oriental Novel series is a prose with an oriental flavor and elements of magical realism.