For the first time in Russian - one of the most striking debuts in American literature in recent years. This multi-genre work, which reached the reader for over a decade, has earned comparisons with David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the novels of Umberto Eco. “A true delight: something like a huge cabinet of curiosities full of curiosities...” wrote Publishers Weekly magazine. “It’s a masterpiece of epic proportions that can be loved like a long-lost friend found again.” The action of The Mirror Thief spans several countries, continents and centuries - and three different Venices: from the majestic palazzos and glass workshops of 16th-century Venice, where secret agents of European and Asian powers try to learn the secret of the production of the legendary Murano mirrors, to the bars and coffee shops of another, Venice of Los Angeles, where poets and writers of the Beat Generation find out who is the most brilliant among them, and a young street scammer is eager to find the author of the poem “Mirror Thief” that struck his imagination, to the pseudo-Venetian casinos of modern Las Vegas, where a retired military policeman is desperate trying to get on the trail of an elusive player, a threat to both coasts...