The novel "Swifts" by the famous Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu is being published in Ukrainian for the first time. The work is built in the form of an extremely Frank diary: only a person who has nothing to lose can write in this way. The main character is a 54-year-old philosophy teacher, divorced and disappointed in life: "I was taught to conjugate the verb 'to love', but I was not taught to love." Tony decides to pass away voluntarily. He gives himself a year to "collect" to cope with business, and in his apartment, behind a photo of his father, a bag of potassium cyanide is hidden. Day after day, approaching the X-hour, he recalls in his notes his past, which firmly holds the hero captive, and reflects on what happiness, love, friendship, maturity are, what is the value of life. Warm relations are connected only with the dog Pepa and the only friend — the one-legged intellectual Patachula. And his loneliness is shared by the silicone sex doll Tina, for which he buys expensive perfume. Preparing for his death, Tony gradually loses his belongings, in particular a valuable library: he leaves books in various places in Madrid. And wherever he goes, he tirelessly follows the flight of Swifts, whose beauty attracts and confuses the hero. He interacts with birds in dreams, where he feels the lightness and freedom of approaching, dreams of becoming a haircut to become unattainable. It is voluntary death that becomes a feature of unattainability for Tony. So will you be able to implement your plan?..