Vladimir Voinovich’s new book is not only a real literary, but also a cultural event of our time. In this book, the picture of our today's reality is given with the brightness and completeness of a magnificent talent, the same age as the era of, perhaps, one of the most famous classics of Russian prose. The time of action in the new book is from the distant 1982 to the present day, the place of action is modern Russia, in which reality is more fantastic than any fiction, and people can really be made into nails, as another famous classic wrote. But it’s unlikely that anything can be built on these nails...