"Lilac Girls" is a book about love, resilience and mercy. About how to survive in inhuman conditions and stay human. Caroline Ferryday, a New York society diva, is passionate about the new novel and her work at the French consulate. She does not yet know that she has to save orphans and victims of concentration camps. Soon the carefree youth of the Polish woman Kasi Kuzmerik will end. Risking her life, the girl will perform underground tasks. Hertha Oberheuser dreams of a career as a surgeon, but in Nazi Germany this profession is not available to women. We will have to find another, truly fatal use for our talent and knowledge. There is a point on the globe where these paths of life will intersect. It is called Ravensbrück. This is a women's concentration camp. For the first time in Russian!