The Wind Takes Away Dead Leaves: [novel] / Ekaterina Manoylo. — Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2025. — 264 pages. ISBN 978-5-00223-042-6 "The Wind Takes Away Dead Leaves" — the second novel by the "Litsey" prize laureate Ekaterina Manoylo — raises questions of guilt and responsibility, deserved punishment, and family secrets capable of breaking more than one life. Here, as in her debut book "Father Looks West," the problem of fathers and children is addressed, but the author offers the reader a completely different perspective. Two sisters forced to flee home, a mother who left the family for a glamorous life, a father searching for a replacement for his unfaithful wife in his eldest daughter, deception, despair, murder, pursuit — this is both sharply social prose and a road movie, rarely found in Russian literature. UDC 821.161.1-311.1 BBK 84(2=411.2)6-44