About the book: 2013 / Boris Evseev finds such themes and such heroes that he most often has no rivals in their description and development - these are artistic discoveries. You can't help but notice them. And therefore Evseev is a laureate of the Bunin and Gorky Prizes, the Russian Government Prize for 2012, a finalist in the “Big Book”, “Russian Booker”, “Yasnaya Polyana”... So the novel “Flaming Air” is not just lyrical grotesque and psychological drama, but also the only literary work dedicated to the mystery of the ethereal wind. It would seem that ideas about it were preserved only in physics textbooks of the century before last. But no: a group of modern scientists, with the help of the latest experiments, is trying to return to the solution to this “fifth essence” of the material world. And it becomes clear: in the twenty-first century, we can no longer discount taboo or considered “inconvenient” topics and alternative forms of knowledge.