About the book: 2020 / Alexander Ilichevsky (b. 1970) - prose writer and poet, winner of the Russian Booker (Matisse) and Big Book awards (“Persian”) The hero of his new novel “Newton’s Blueprint” makes three big journeys: on his way to an American religious sect, crosses the Nevada desert by car, peers at its landscape, spends the night in provincial towns; examines the legacy of an abandoned Soviet laboratory in the Pamirs, among the mountains and local residents with their simple way of life and deep beliefs; is looking for his father in Jerusalem - a famous poet, dreamer, tramp, idol of creative parties and an expert on the ancient history of the Holy Land…