For the first time in Russian - a “Japanese” novel by the idol of the counterculture, the “modern Mark Twain,” an outstanding storyteller, the last American classic Richard Brautigan, who was recognized as their teacher by Haruki Murakami and Erlend Lu. His Japanese girlfriend leaves the famous American humorist. Trying to drown out the pain of loss, he begins a new novel - about an ice-cold sombrero that, for no apparent reason, falls from the sky onto the main street of a small town. Unable to concentrate, the writer tears the typescript to shreds and throws it into the wastepaper basket - where, against his will, the situation around the sombrero heats up, exploding into large-scale bloodshed.