About the book: 2004 / "Bro's Way" is a new novel by Vladimir Sorokin. A full-fledged and independent work, this book is also a “prequel” (backstory) of the events described in the novel “Ice,” published two years earlier, and constitutes the first book of the future epic, the completion of which the author is currently working on. “The time of the Earth is multi-colored. Every object, every creature lives in its own time. In its own color. The time of stones and mountains dark purple. The time of sand is purple. The time of rivers and lakes is apricot. The time of insects is brown. The time of cold-blooded animals is olive. The time of warm-blooded animals is blue. And only in We, brothers of Light, do not have our own earthly color. We are colorless while the Primordial Light remains in our hearts. For He is our time. And in this time we live. When our hearts stop and the Light leaves them, we acquire color. Violet. But not for long: as soon as the body cools down, its time turns dark yellow. The time of the corpses of living beings on Earth is dark yellow."