About the book: 2010 / A novel written over more than half a century - from 1945 to 2000 - from one symbolic date to another. A novel that developed from stories " April Witchcraft”, “Uncle Einar” and “The Wanderer”, on which more than one generation of Soviet and then Russian readers grew up. The novel, at the origins of which stood the famous artist Charlie Addams, the creator of “The Addams Family.” And the Elliot family, the heroes of “Rise From the Ashes,” is in no way inferior to the Addamses. This family chronicle we bring to your attention intertwines the stories of Count Dracula and the Egyptian mummy, a mouse that has traveled halfway around the world, and the ghost of the Orient Express, four disembodied cousins ​​and the Thebean voice…