Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) is a contemporary Scottish writer, a physicist by training, the author of four novels, who was awarded the national prize for best debut in 1994. The novel "Pfitz" (1995), probably the writer's most extravagant work, invites you to the 18th century, to a small German principality, whose ruler focused all his resources and the efforts of his subjects on creating an imaginary city - Rhinestadt. Pfitz - the cousin of Lieutenant Kizhe - having arisen from a mistake on paper, begins a completely independent existence...