Surgeon

Marina stepnova, the novelist, the author of the loudly voiced novel "Women of Lazarus" (the prize "Big book", the shortlist of the prize "Russian Booker", "national Bestseller", "Yasnaya Polyana"), novels "Godless lane" and collection of short stories "somewhere near Grosseto. Her books have been translated into twenty-three languages.
In the novel "the Surgeon" is the story of a brilliant plastic surgeon Arcadia Khripunova intertwined with the story of the life of Hassan Ibn Sabbah, the prophet and founder of the state of islamico-nizari XI century, the owner of an impregnable fortress Alamut. Khripunov changes of the human body, and hence the fate. Giving people a new face, he sees just the material — cartilage Yes the skin. Ibn Sabbah requires its material unquestioning obedience and his own kills unwanted. They're beings of a higher order, human passions do not touch them, the only thing capable of hitting God's chosen, earthly beauty...