“Lena Eltang's characters are always a little homeless. Their habitat and sense of homeliness is replaced by world culture. We can say that with paradoxical literalness they embody Mandelstam’s formula that Hellenism is a stove pot.” This is what critic Igor Gulin said about one of the author’s texts. Eltang’s new book continues the tradition: it is not only a classic novel about a Russian writer who finds himself in a dangerous situation on a foreign land, and not only a detective drama in which there is crime and punishment. First of all, these are travel notes of an escapist, a lost European, a man of common sense, but complete recklessness, this is the diary of a romantic, immersing us in the space of consciousness of a hero living simultaneously in two dimensions: in subjectively perceived social reality and in the space of personal myth.