Evgenie Klyuyev"s new novel, like its former novels, transforms phantasmagoria into a reality and lifts a reality to phantasmagoria. It is the novel constantly balancing on border between miracle and a trick, the text and life, visible and invisible, the past and the future. In the novel, subject lines are lost in each other: the circus world, the world of a high science, the world of the paranormal phenomena, the world of myths, and gossips. The novel similar to the city about which it is written - the mysterious city of Moscow: a city-palimpsest, a mirage-city, a dream-city. The book is a finalist of the National Big Book Award 2010.