XXI century. A man wakes up in a cave near Beirut, wanders around the city, reflects on lost love, human nature and the cyclical nature of History, writes memoirs about his life. Neolithic era. A man lives in a village on the shore of a Lake, dreams of the most beautiful woman in his not very big world, rebels against his father, hides in the forests, becomes a leader and healer, tries to save his native tribe from the irresistible catastrophe of the Flood. The eras are different. The person is the same. He does not age or die; he managed to see many eras and in each he is looking for his incredible beloved - the only one for all these endless centuries. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt took 30 years to approach the philosophical and romantic epic about how a person goes through the entire history of the world. And finally, “Paradise Lost” is the first volume of a grandiose saga in which the immortal healer Noam has yet to see the Kingdom of Babylon, and Ancient Greece, and the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. Immortality turns a person into an eternal exile and gives him a sharp look: Noam looks at things from a very special angle, and his voice turns the chaos of History into a harmonious story of chaos, where stupidity and cruelty are inevitable, but there is always a place for wisdom and love. For the first time in Russian!< /p>