The Girl & The ECHO

For Max, this was supposed to be the end. For seven years he had loved Anna — quietly, stubbornly, with almost no hope. He loved everything about her: her height, her sharpness, her litre mugs of tea, her habit of arguing about Roman law, the strange beauty she herself considered a collection of flaws. She married someone else. After the wedding, Anna comes to see him as though nothing has changed. But it is precisely then that Max understands for the first time: he has spent too long living someone else's life. A new job in Petersburg. A new city. And a woman he had known online for fourteen years — without knowing she was a woman. Zara Gorenko — programmer, life model at the Repin Academy, author of books on painting. The person who single-handedly created what every person on the planet now has — and chose to remain in the shadows. About two children from a children's home who one day decided that this man was their father. And turned out to be right.