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More info They are like people, only made of sturdy wood. There are few of them, they are hiding. Their life is a mystery. Once upon a time, 300 years ago, they were called «idols» and almost all were destroyed; few survived. In the provincial town of Pavlovo, a strange thing happens: a famous scientist-historian was killed, and from his house with the rarest icons and expensive equipment a mysterious thief took … only a piece of an ancient idol, the head of a wooden sculpture of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. «The Mahogany Man» — a trip to a secret world where neither laws nor logic work; where there is only passion and painful search for the ideal. The Mahogany Man is a paradoxical story of the transformation of death into love, suffering into hope. This is an attempt — perhaps for the first time in Russian literature — to reveal the secrets of the union and fusion of Slavic paganism with Orthodox Christianity. And, of course, this is an argument with God. Because a man, created in the image of God, cannot but come into conflict with his creator. …
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