Heroes of novel the "Snow queen is brothers of Баррет and Тайлер, veritable habitants of bohemian New York, lonely and vulnerable, not ready to bear with losses, in the eternal search of sense of life and calling. They so remained children - as if heroes of fairy-tale of Andersen, they roam in an endless labyrinth, trying to save itself and near, to betray nobody and be not cold. Special role in a narration at a city look simultaneously like a bench old-clothesman and unexplored planet, walked all over trough the length and breadth, - and however complete secrets. From a scene New York unnoticed grows into an acting person, thus nearly main.Michael Каннингем, author of famous "Clock and "At home at the end of the earth, again confirmed the glory of one of the best American prose writers, brilliant heir of modernists. Thinly feeling contemporaneity, Каннингем tries to catch her slipping out essence, interlacing past and future, ordinary and mystic in the bright moment of lighting up.