A new novel by Evgeniy Kliuev, like his previous novels, makes a phantasmagoria in reality and reality raises to phantasmagoria. It is a novel, constantly balancing on the border between a miracle and a gimmick, text and life, visible and invisible, past and future. Novel whose plot lines to lose the essence of each other worlds: the world of the circus world of high science, the world of the paranormal, the world of myths, rumors and gossip. The novel, like the city of which it is written, - the mysterious city of Moscow city-palimpsest, the city is a mirage, a dream city. Roman generated word-for-word and outgoing. Evgeniy Kliuev (born 1954) - poet, novelist, playwright, translator, journalist, artist, scholar. He graduated from the Tver State University, "Russian language and literature", then - post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Journalism. Ph.D. Specialty - linguistic pragmatics. In 1990-1991. - Chief Editor of the application "Literature" to the newspaper "September 1" in 1992-1993. - Chief Editor of "Mission", in 1993-1996. - Dean of the Faculty of Journalism of the University of the Russian Academy of Education (URAO). Since 1996 he has been living in Copenhagen (Denmark), where he teaches in the Danish linguistic center, maintaining ties with Russia and continuing to publish the artistic, scientific and journalistic texts mainly in the capital's publishing houses.