Famous underground composer Matvey Kamlaev hears divine dissonance in the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11th. He lives in the world of music, breathes it, thinks and feels through it. He breaks the usual musical structures, creating a new harmony. He is a recognized genius, but not in everything. Accusations of parasitism, excommunication from creativity, fatigue from love test his talent to the limit. Reading the novel, it’s as if you hear music.

Russia has not seen works of this magnitude for a long time. The synthesis of historical epic and lyrical poem, multiplied by the amazing musical composition of the novel, gives the effect of a grand opera. Sergei Samsonov wrote a book equivalent in scope to Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe, Hans Christian Andersen's The Improviser. Subtle knowledge of the world of music, the play of metaphors and images, the search for the philosophy of chosenness, the ability to harmoniously convey the movement of time - these techniques bring the novel into line with the most modern literary trends. Could you expect this from an author who recently turned 27?!