About the book: 2007 / A dark and bizarre parable, exquisitely stylized as a historical novel. A tale of war and power, love and hate, memory and religion. Multi-level modernist a novel, as the critic aptly puts it, “reflecting modern problems of existence in an ancient bronze mirror.” A book, each of the layers of which - from the external, fascinating plot, to the most profound, philosophical - will undoubtedly attract the reader and make him think…