A brilliant but detached plastic surgeon. He views human bodies not as living beings, but as raw material to be molded into a "perfect" beauty that he believes only he can define. His surgical prowess is described with a cold, almost religious intensity.
The book explores beauty not as a source of joy, but as a dangerous, often lethal obsession. Stepnova’s prose is "ruthless," mirroring the surgical precision of her protagonist. skachat knigu stepnovoi khirurg
Stepnova is celebrated for her "immaculate" and "razor-sharp" word choice. Her writing is: A brilliant but detached plastic surgeon
The novel employs a dual-timeline structure, alternating between two protagonists separated by centuries but united by a singular, ruthless pursuit of perfection: but as a dangerous