About the book: 2012 / The main character of the new novel by Sergei Minaev is Moscow... This city does not make people better and very soon gets rid of illusions, but it the lights flicker so mysteriously at night that people involuntarily begin to dream of the impossible. Some people do nothing but engage in intellectual conversations; others surround themselves with expensive things, enjoying their individual paradise; still others work hard for pennies... But they all dream, and their dreams permeate the very air of the metropolis. And although the author sympathizes with his characters, he skillfully moves from humor to irony, from irony to sarcasm.