Joshua Ferris made a name for himself in 2007 with the novel And Then There Were None, which Stephen King compared to Joseph Heller's Catch-22. In the novel The Nameless, Ferris's talent was revealed from a completely different side. A sad philosopher who knows how to find depth in ordinary things - this is how the author of this novel appears before us, which critics called the best book of the past decade. The main character, a successful lawyer Tim Farnsworth, lived an ordinary life: he climbed the corporate ladder, enjoyed small family joys, but this idyll was destroyed by a strange and terrible nameless disease. Tim is doomed, but life on the edge of an abyss, at the entrance to eternity, opens his eyes to many things.