For the first time in Russian - a novel from the renowned author of The Winter's Tale, the cornerstone of New York magical realism. The elderly narrator writes his manuscript in the Brazilian jungle and folds it, page by page, into a termite-proof suitcase. He set himself a truly grandiose task: to tell his son about what brought him to Brazil - after his childhood spent near New York in the Hudson Valley, and his youth - in a Swiss mental hospital, after studying at Harvard, after serving as a pilot - fighter in World War II, after decades of successful enrichment in a Wall Street bank, after many incredible escapades and one great love...