About the book: 2007 / Before you is a novel of life. Its author, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, aircraft engine designer Edgar Vulgakov (1927 - 2006), having completed his novel, also completed his earthly journey, without even seeing the book published. This is a novel of life in the literal sense: the hero lives on the pages of the book his pre-war childhood, evacuation, school years, college, love, business trips, work at a research institute, perestroika... “The Passage of Time” is a very accurate title. The author can invent a hero, can put his own thoughts into his speeches, can invent his fate. But the author is not able to invent time, unless, of course, he is honest with himself. Edgar Vulgakov as a writer stopped time and honestly captured it.