About the book: 2024 / What if the price of your immortality is someone else's life? Are you ready? The alchemist and Kabbalist Enoch answered “yes.” And he created such a device. But in Leningrad in the mid-eighties, where Enoch is thrown by fate, the device is stolen. Throughout Germany of the nineteenth century, France of the early twentieth and the recent eras of “stagnation” and “dashing nineties” in a dynamic narrative rush about: the cruel Enoch, a descendant of German aristocrats Max, the roguish Matvey and the philistine Mazin, into whose hands, by chance, a dangerous apparatus falls.