About the book: 2001 / "Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" A.N. Tolstoy ends with the escape of the main characters - Garin and Madame Lamole - from the Golden Island and the shipwreck of the yacht Arizona. The heroes of the work find themselves thrown onto a desert island, where they begin to eke out a miserable existence, without hope, without a future... The author seems to transfer his heroes into a state of literary anabiosis (neither life nor death), as if hoping for the continuation of his novel. And so, an Argentine research vessel rescues Garin and Zoya. Years of conspiracy, need, deprivation follow... Garin’s daring, analytical mind cannot come to terms with this state of affairs. While working as an expert in a patent office, he becomes imbued with the fashionable and paradoxical ideas of the theory of relativity and comes up with the idea of ​​​​creating... What followed this - what achievements, intrigues and adventures - as well as the whole fantastic story of “The Second Coming of Engineer Garin”, the reader will find in this fascinating book.