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V "Drakule" Brėma Stokera u Miny Kharker byla blizhaĭshai͡a podruga Li͡usi Vestenra - ėtalonnai͡a "novai͡a zhenshchina" pozdneviktorianskoĭ ėpokhi. V romane "I sgustilsi͡a tuman" Dzhuli Si Dao pereosmysli͡aet ėtot klassicheskiĭ obraz: ee Li͡usi ne tolʹko pytaetsi͡a vybratʹ zhenikha iz trekh predannykh ukhazherov - syn lorda Godalminga Artur Kholmvud, doktor Dzhon Sʹi͡uvord i ego amerikanskiĭ drug, iskatelʹ prikli͡ucheniĭ Kvinsi Morris iz Tekhasa, - no takzhe boretsi͡a s t͡selym sonmom davnikh navazhdeniĭ, v chisle kotorykh lunatizm i oderzhimostʹ smertʹi͡u. Vo sne ona chasto guli͡aet po zalitym lunoĭ primorskim utesam Severnogo Ĭorkshira u razvalin drevnego abbatstva Uitbi, i tam eĭ i͡avli͡aetsi͡a tainstvennyĭ neznakomet͡s Vlad; on vidit v neĭ "idealʹnui͡u zhenshchinu ėpokhi" i sulit eĭ bessmertie. Ustoi͡atʹ pered novym navazhdeniem ona ne v silakh - no chto, esli ėto ne prosto sny? I kto pribyl v gavanʹ Uitbi na russkom korable "Demetra" iz Bolgarii - korable, na bortu kotorogo ne nashli ni odnoĭ zhivoĭ dushi, lishʹ tridt͡satʹ i͡ashchikov s zemleĭ?. . V 2025 godu roman "I sgustilsi͡a tuman" poluchil premii͡u Assot͡siat͡sii romanticheskoĭ literatury kak luchshai͡a kniga v kategorii "Romanticheskai͡a fėntezi". Vpervye na russkom.

In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mina Harker had Lucy Westenra as her closest friend, a model "new woman" of the late Victorian era. In the novel "And the Fog Gathered," Julie Xi Dao rethinks this classic image: her Lucy is not only trying to choose a fiance from three devoted suitors — Lord Godalming's son Arthur Holmwood, Dr. John Seward and his American friend, adventurer Quincy Morris from Texas, but also struggles with a whole host of long—standing obsessions, including which include sleepwalking and obsession with death. In her dreams, she often walks along the moonlit seaside cliffs of North Yorkshire near the ruins of the ancient Whitby Abbey, and there a mysterious stranger Vlad appears to her; he sees in her the "ideal woman of the era" and promises her immortality. She can't resist a new obsession—but what if it's not just dreams? And who arrived in Whitby Harbor on the Russian ship Demeter from Bulgaria, a ship on board of which not a single living soul was found, only thirty boxes of earth?. In 2025, the novel "And the Fog Gathered" won the Romantic Literature Association Award as the best book in the Romantic Fantasy category. For the first time in Russian.