Surgeon. Stepnova M.

Marina Stepnova - a prose writer, which loudly sounded the novel “Women of Lazarus” (a Big Book Prize, Short - a sheet of Russian Bouquer Prizes, National Bestseller, Yasnaya Polyana), Romanov “Brighty Lane” and a collection of stories “ Somewhere under the Grosso. " Her books are translated into twenty -three languages. In the novel “Surgeon”, the history of the brilliant plastic surgeon Arkady Khripunov is intertwined with the story of the life of Hassan ibn Sabbach - the Prophet and founder of the Islamite state - Nizarites of the XI century, the owner of the impregnable fortress Alamut. Khripunov changes human bodies, and hence fate. Giving people new faces, he sees just material in front of him - cartilage and skin. Ibn Sabbach demands from its material unquestioning obedience and personally kills the objectionable ones. Both feel like creatures of the highest order, human passions do not touch them, the only thing that can hit the chosen by God is earthly beauty...