Alexei Mikheyev has created a non-linear novel of fragments that add up to a puzzle in multiple dimensions and genres. Personal, biographical time is interwoven with social and historical time (ranging from the 1960s to the 2000s), and the tragic incompleteness of individual human life is compensated for by the harmony and integrity of the global picture of the world.

The penetrating and stylistically self-contained prose fragments that form the book are in the best traditions of 20th-century modernist and absurdist prose, and speak in part to the works of Kharms and Cortazar. Fragments of human life merge into a single picture — a history of a country and the human race in its entirety. Alexei Mikheyev’s book is journey through Moscow of the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘90s and 2000s, as well as through an abstract, universal space at an abstract, universal time. He somehow manages to weave dry words into an entire world in which every reader will find a little piece of their own life