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Award nominee. Apollona Grigorieva and the National Bestseller Nominee for the Yasnaya Polyana Prize The scene of the novel is the Southern Kuriles, where the author lived for almost ten years. The same Kuriles that Russia and Japan have not been able to divide for more than two centuries. Why - "Pagan", if the novel does not at all represent free improvisations on historical themes and is devoted to recent events, in many of which the author himself participated? Modern man, recklessly accusing himself of atheism, gives the answer to this question with his mental make-up. Willy-nilly, his empty naive soul is filled with superstitions, so that the world around is gradually animated, inhabited by "demons and spirits" with traits that have not yet been drawn, that have not yet received their real names and have not taken shape in a new pagan mythology, but have already acquired some kind of transcendent and together with that, an immutable meaning for a person ... If at the same time a person settles on the borders of the real, in the bosom of wild nature, where the land ends and the ocean begins, where nature rebels against a person, sending typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis on him, so sometimes the canvas of life is torn into shreds, then a person is faced with a choice: either to let these shreds go to the wind, or to live with all his might and patch up his fate. About all this and not only in the book Pagan (Alexander Kuznetsov-Tulyanin)