The book, which critics called “Ragtime of the XXI century.” A kaleidoscope novel in which the destinies of a naive village girl and an anorexic star, a neurotic scientist disillusioned with the hippie ideals of the sixties, a charming non-giver of “Generation X” are intricately and subtly intertwined. and the astronaut of the legendary Apollo 13. A novel that literally absorbed the spirit of the end of the 20th century - in all its completeness and versatility, in all its tragedy and farce.