With the cold calculation of a surgeon, the inquisitiveness of a discoverer and the imagination of an artist, Vladimir Sorokin dissects reality, bringing to light the main contradictions and philosophical dilemmas of modern society. How do new myths appear and old ones change, what influence does classical literature and, more broadly, culture have on our lives, where are the boundaries between past and present, present and future, and do such boundaries exist at all? Sorokin very accurately manages to determine those small and seemingly insignificant details by contemporaries, analyzing which descendants will judge our era.