★This book won one of the most important awards in Russia - the National Bestseller Award! Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize Finalist!
★Representative works of the internationally renowned Russian writer Dmitry Bykov, winner of the All-Russian Bestseller Award and the Big Book Award!
★The author Dmitry Bykov's "Biography of Pasternak" has been authorized to be published in China!
★This is a work that integrates future, fantasy, prophecy, and criticism into one, which is poignant.
★Licensed for UK publishing. English translation references are available.

The novel is set decades in the future, when the world has rendered Russian oil and gas useless to other nations thanks to a newly discovered energy source called phlogiston. Russia has a lot of deposits in the West, but almost none in Russia itself and in the Eastern world. With nothing of value to sell, the West is no longer interested in Russia, and Russia is left to fend for itself. Russia is also increasingly passive in state conflicts and wars for power and territorial dominance, which further depletes Russia's already meager resources. A comical civil war was also taking place in Russia at this time.
This book traces the fate of four lovers trying to escape the chaos and foolish war that surrounds them: a little girl and a homeless man; a poet and his lover forever separated from him; a governor and his love An Aboriginal woman; a legendary commander and his rival girlfriend. The plot of the novel is ups and downs, grasping the heart. The author uses a metaphorical way to express his concern and exploration of the way forward for the motherland.

The novel is set decades in the future, when the world has rendered Russian oil and gas useless to other nations thanks to a newly discovered energy source called phlogiston. Russia has a lot of deposits in the West, but almost none in Russia itself and in the Eastern world. With nothing of value to sell, the West is no longer interested in Russia, and Russia is left to fend for itself. Russia is also increasingly passive in state conflicts and wars for power and territorial dominance, which further depletes Russia's already meager resources. A comical civil war was also taking place in Russia at this time.
This book traces the fate of four lovers trying to escape the chaos and foolish war that surrounds them: a little girl and a homeless man; a poet and his lover forever separated from him; a governor and his love An Aboriginal woman; a legendary commander and his rival girlfriend. The plot of the novel is ups and downs, grasping the heart. The author uses a metaphorical way to express his concern and exploration of the way forward for the motherland.