About the book: 2002 / New book by the famous prose writer, essayist Alexander Goldstein (“Parting with Narcissus”, UFO, 1997, Small Booker and Anti-Booker awards; “Aspects” spiritual marriage", UFO, 2001, shortlist for the Andrei Bely Prize) - an addictive, unusual novel in which multi-temporal spaces collide, from Sergiev Posad to Transcaucasia, from Cyprus to Palestine, as well as phantasmagoria and satire, a gladiatorial circus and an Orthodox monastery, interpretation of ideas and confessional adventures of the flesh.