The story of Anna Starobínets (Moscow, 1978) with the legend of the three-tailed eagles begins when she was 10 years old and studying Japanese at school, and ends not long ago in a house in Manchuria, eating a cake of boiled chicken blood next to a wrinkled woman with the most original women of contemporary Russian literature and author of books such as The Icarus gland (2013; Mai Més, 2023), has just published his most extensive and ambitious novel in Catalan, The Fox's Ford (Never Again), translated by Miquel Cabal. The heart of the book is the Guilla women, mythological beings known as kitsune in Japanese and from huli jing In Chinese, these witches are foxes in their original form, but they have the ability to transform into women who never age and, when they have sex with a man, they steal his life energy.