Ivanov’s Ghost

Englischsprachige Originalausgabe. Moldova, 1998. A NATO pilot crashes during a reconnaissance flight over the northeast of the country and is admitted to a crumbling Soviet-era hospital. Fractured ribs, unconscious, a nameless man in a ward that has barely seen patients in years. Then something begins that none of the four nurses can explain. The moment they enter the pilot's room, their bodies respond — involuntarily, violently, beyond control. None of them feels attraction. None of them asked for this. And yet a force older than all of them pulses through the building like a heartbeat that never stopped. When the enigmatic Anastasia Serova arrives — a nurse in a black uniform no one requested — she doesn't fight the phenomenon. She measures it. With clipboard, stopwatch, and the clinical precision of a scientist, she transforms the hospital wing into a laboratory. Her methods are as disturbing as the responses she documents. Because Anastasia carries a legacy rooted in the basements of this very building — in the experiments of Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov, whose work was officially destroyed but never truly ended. Between four nurses, two aging doctors, and a woman who may no longer be entirely herself, a psychosexual chamber play unfolds in which bodies do things the mind has not authorized, and in which the line between science and possession, between protocol and ritual, between control and surrender finally breaks. Ivanov's Ghost is an erotic psychological thriller at the intersection of Soviet science history, body horror, and literary erotica. A novel about bodies that remember what the mind wants to forget — and about buildings that never stop whispering. This book contains explicit sexual depictions, ritualized medical scenarios, and psychosexual boundary experiences. For adult readers only.