For the first time in Russian - an epic panorama of the world capital, shaken by explosions: German bombs in 1940, V-2 rockets in 1944, the sexual revolution in 1967, constructive nostalgia in 1985. The destinies of the main characters are intertwined in Bedlam: Joseph Kise, a modern-day Falstaff, turned his paranormal talents to benefit people - for which he suffered; Mary Ghazali emerged from the flames unharmed and fell asleep for fifteen years; David Mummery calls himself an anthropologist of urbanism and loves the hippie era because no one bothers him to dress like a cowboy. Their voices are woven into the chorus of preoccupied contemporaries and famous ghosts, centuries-old parks and cozy pubs, eloquent ruins and the many-sided Thames...