About the book: year / The Tower of Babel - the greatest of the wonders of the world. This is a huge, mountain-like layer cake of warlike and peaceful destinies; this is a world of geniuses and tyrants, airships and steam engines, strange animals and mysterious mechanisms. Having lived all his life in the rural wilderness, Tom Senlin is convinced that the Tower of Babel is the heart of civilization, the focus of all that is best and sublime. He goes there on his honeymoon with his young wife - and loses her in the crowd at the city market. After spending two days on a fruitless search, Tom decides to enter the tower - most likely, his wife is already waiting for him inside. And he finds himself in a devilish labyrinth, not at all similar to the happy world drawn by his imagination. For the first time in Russian!