84x108/32, hard cover, 336 pp., 2006
ISBN 5-86793-475-6

The new book by Aleksandr Goldshtein (Leaving Narcissus, NLO, 1997, Maly Buker and Antibuker; Aspects of Spiritual Marriage, NLO, 2001, shortlisted for the Andrey Belyi prize; Remember Famagusta, NLO, 2004) is a fascinating narrative which links cruel pictures of daytime reality, in all its shocking and pathological explicitness, to the nocturnal half of existence. Adventurers and mystics, men of action and dreamers enchanted by dreams and feelings, they dance their ritual dance, submerging the prose into the atmosphere of the moon and noontide. The location is the expanses of the imagination: Alexandria, St. Petersburg, Madrid and Berlin. The time scheme is not constrained by chronology.

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