For the first time in Russian - the only novel by Tom Stoppard, creator of the famous plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, “The Coast of Utopia”, “The Real Inspector Hound”, “Travesties”, “Arcadia”, “Indian Ink”, “The Invention of Love” and many, many others, the author of scripts for such films as “Vatel”, “Shakespeare in Love”, “Brazil”, “Empire of the Sun” (based on the novel by J. G. Ballard). A skilled master of paradoxes, a magnificent interpreter of the classics, an intellectual virtuoso, inclined to parody and travesty reality, Stoppard, in the pages of Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon, brought out an arrogant dandy, as if transported into the twentieth century straight from the eighteenth, and his unlucky biographer with a beautiful wife of high demand, an Irishman riding a donkey, convinced that he is the Risen Christ, and two cowboys with their trusty Colts, having a shootout in the alleys of Hyde Park...