About the book: 2023 / One lucky theater producer meets a talented student boy in St. Petersburg. He has been dreaming about the stage since childhood and knows all his older friend’s plays by heart. Do you already know how this will end? Take your time. You risk making mistakes. Just as the heroes themselves constantly make mistakes. On stage, they enthusiastically engage in “mash-up” - a free reading of literary classics (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov + Shakespeare and especially Bulgakov). Their performances are radical and provocative. And so does their personal life. They realize too late that they are playing too hard. And yet, this novel is not about theater and certainly not about “toxic relationships.” This is a book about love... for your favorite books. Even in the era of VR and neural networks, this love promises to be eternal. Alexander Egorov was born in St. Petersburg. He worked as a driver, journalist, editor-in-chief of a magazine, and director of an advertising agency. I studied music a lot. Author of several books for both adults and teenagers.