For the first time in Russian - the backstory of The English Patient, an amazing bestseller that captivated readers on all continents, was awarded the most prestigious Booker Prize in the English-speaking world and served as the basis for a famous movie that received nine Oscars. Again we have before us a subtle and poetic love story; this time it is set in the melting pot of interwar Toronto, at the fragile intersection of classes and subcultures. Among the characters are a millionaire who wished to disappear without a trace, and his faithful lover-actress, anarchists and honest demolitions from a timber rafting, the noble thief Caravaggio with a learned dog, visionary architects of the coming utopia and its nameless builders...