Alexander Ilichevsky (b. 1970) is a prose writer and poet, winner of the Russian Booker (Matisse) and Big Book (Persian) awards. The hero of his new novel “Newton’s Blueprint” makes three great journeys: on his way to an American religious sect, he crosses the Nevada desert by car, peers at its landscape, spends the night in provincial towns; examines the legacy of an abandoned Soviet laboratory in the Pamirs, among the mountains and local residents with their simple way of life and deep beliefs; is looking for his father in Jerusalem - a famous poet, dreamer, vagabond, idol of creative parties and an expert on the ancient history of the Holy Land...