About the book: 2008 / Serge Rezvani was born in Tehran in 1928. His father was Persian and his mother was Russian. In his youth, Serge Rezvani was engaged in painting, and in the 60s of the last century he enjoyed enormous success as a songwriter. But his real fame was brought to him by plays and novels (“The Town of Potemkin”, “The Creation of the World”, “Love Opposite”, “Eclipse”, etc.). The mystery of what happened on board the luxurious yacht “Uranus”, owned by the famous Nayev family and found completely empty on the high seas? Which of this family, all of whose members were writers, drowned all their relatives with them? And who left bloody scratches on the snow-white varnished stern? To solve this mystery, the Investigator of the Naval Department and his friend the Poet-Criminologist call for help from a Literary Scholar, who is personally acquainted with all the Nayas and has written a book about their life and work. Deciphering the manuscripts remaining on board the ship, three researchers plunge into the complex world of this literary family, full of endless conflicts, jealousy, hatred, ambitions. Disguising his novel as an ordinary police investigation, Rezvani, in an ironic manner, reflects on the dangerous paths of creativity, on the incomprehensible mystery of death... and therefore of being.