Syndrome of Punch by Dina Rubina

The novel tells the story of the dolls, and allows you to immerse yourself in the mystery puppeteer... And this has its own mystery, its genius, an incredible artist who has been born thanks to incredible mixture of tribal blood. In general, the question of genius (sometimes bordering on the incredible way Degeneration) - one of the basic work of Dina Rubina (sounding another early novel, "On the sunny side of the street").