Evgeny Водолазкин is author of novels "Лавр", "Airman", "Соловьев and Ларионов", "Brisbane", collections of short prose to "Go intrepidly" and "Instrument of language", laureate of bonuses "The Large book", "Clear Glade" and "Book of year". His books are translated into many languages.The action of new novel is opened out on Island that is not present on a map, but existence of him does not cause doubts. Not to find him in textbooks for histories, and events - knowable painfully. Middle ages interlace with contemporaneity, universal - with the personal, and tragedy - with a grotesque. Here the lightest princes and chairmen of Island, хронисты and prophets, lord of bees and talking cat neighbor easily. According to an ancient prediction, Island is waited by large tests. Will he be able to pass them, when earth begins to leave from under feet?.