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1881 год, Иокогама.

Рассказ относится ко времени службы Эраста Фандорина российским вице-консулом в Японии.

При странных обстоятельствах в буддистском монастыре в Иокогаме умирает монах-отшельник Мэйтан, в прошлом – российский дворянин, дипломат, сослуживец Фандорина.

Ходят слухи, что причиной смерти Мэйтана стал Сигумо – гигантский оборотень, паук-вампир.

Но Фандорин подозревает, что смерть отшельника имеет вполне земное объяснение, и затевает собственное расследование…

Продюсер издания: Владимир Воробьёв

© Б. Акунин

©&℗ ИП Воробьев В.А.

©&℗ ИД СОЮЗ

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Boris Akunin

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Real name - Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (Russian: Борис Акунин; Georgian: გრიგორი შალვას ძე ჩხარტიშვილი; Аlso see Grigory Chkhartishvili, Григорий Чхартишвили), born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1956. Since 1958 he lives in Moscow. Writer and translator from Japanese. Author of crime stories set in tsarist Russia. In 1998 he made his debut with novel Azazel (to English readers known as The Winter Queen), where he created Erast Pietrovich Fandorin.
B. Akunin refers to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin and Akuna, home name of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet.
In September of 2000, Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the "Antibooker" prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs.
Akunin also created crime-solving Orthodox nun, sister Pelagia, and literary genres.
His pseudonyms are Анатолий Брусникин and Анна Борисова. In some Dutch editions he is also known as Boris Akoenin.

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