1990, Eastern Europe, the Berlin Wall has just collapsed. Witty slackers, outcasts, risky businessmen and restless intellectuals are dangerously infiltrating into the uncharted wilds of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, tearing off the scraps of the Iron Curtain as they go, wanting to witness a new Renaissance. Who won the Cold War? Who won the battle of ideologies? What should youth do among the mutilated wreckage of dubious antiquity? The history of the eternally sick, desperate Hungary is intertwined with the history of the painfully healthy, cheerful America, and the child of their union is a barren void, the “golden youth” of the new century, which habitually replaces irony with indifference. The emotional intensity turns the story of a lost generation into a psychological thriller. Business and cultural heritage, a rosy future and irresistible nostalgia, glass-concrete jungle and ancient Gothic, echoes of the terrible history of Eastern European countries. Crippled, but surviving. "Prague", the first novel by Arthur Phillips, preceded the novel "The Egyptologist" and became a bestseller in the West. This book contains all European literature. A book for the “golden youth”, lovers of glamorous psychothrillers, the new “lost generation” for whom nothing can help.