Francoise, or the Path to the Glacier  

Every book of Sergey Nosov – a prose writer and dramatist, finalist of “Russian Booker Prize” and “National bestseller” – is a creative experiment, a game with an intelligent reader. The characters of his new novel – a children’s poet, a positive psychiatrist, a married couple suffering from jealousy mania and an enigmatic Francoise – go to India to meet Girish Baba Brahman. In the meanwhile very extraordinary events take place in St. Petersburg on the eve of their departure... “Francoise, or the Path to the Glacier”, as the author confesses, “is a novel about peculiarities of life, its surprises and quirkiness”.