About the book: 2014 / A novel from the life of a literary party. In the words of the authors of the novel: “Everyone is so well-fed and satisfied, but if only someone now they killed..." "It would be better if they sat at home and wrote their works." Ksenia Kotlyar, a person far from literature, accidentally runs into her university friend Treshnev on the street. Hundreds of buffets are held in Moscow every day, and Treshnev is a regular at the best of them. Accepting Treshnev's invitation to join him at a buffet reception on the occasion of a major literary award, Ksenia does not even suspect what kind of adventure she is getting involved in.