About the book: 2012 / Robertson Davis is a major Canadian writer, a master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers in English-language literature. He was shortlisted for the Booker, and at the end of his life he almost received the Nobel Prize, but, even remaining forever among the candidates, he won the status of a world classic. His “Deptford Trilogy” (“The Fifth Character”, “Manticore”, “World of Wonders”), which became the beginning of the “Canadian breakthrough” in world literature, is already well known to the Russian reader, and now it is the turn of the “Cornish Trilogy”. It was opened by “Rebel Angels”, and continues by “What’s in the Bones” (it was this novel by Davis that made it to the Booker short list). We present to your attention the secret biography of Francis Cornish, a wealthy philanthropist and collector, and it is outlined by the angel-recorder Radveriel (“he not a simple scribe: he is the angel of poetry and the lord of the muses”) and the angel of biographies Tzadkiel the Little (“it was he who intervened when Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac; so he is also an angel of mercy”), And in this biography there was nothing but : mastering the basics of drawing from a tutorial and in the dead, studying at Oxford and a tragicomically hasty marriage, serving in intelligence and counterfeiting paintings by old masters for the most noble reasons, as well as family secrets in all their diversity. The secret background of many events was known only to Francis’s mentor, the famous restorer Signor Saraceni. and of course, the angels. But, as the old proverb says, what’s in the bones cannot be knocked out of the flesh...For the first time in Russian.