In the new novel by the modern classic Joyce Carol Oates (a multiple finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winner of the O. Henry Award, the US National Book Award and many other prestigious awards), time travel, with all its difficulties and dangers, is a completely everyday phenomenon. Oates' depiction of near-future America is akin to Gilead from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The borders are locked; total surveillance; any attempts at dissent are punished harshly and immediately. Who, if not young Adriana Shtrol, the daughter of a state criminal, should know this? However, youth and self-confidence lead to a tragic mistake. A too bold speech at a graduation party is punishable by a link to eighty years into the past, where there are no cell phones, computers, family, or friends. Where fear and loneliness and timid first love are mixed with a growing suspicion: what if Dr. Ira Wolfman is the same exile from the future?..For the first time in Russian!