Dejstvie romana proishodit v nashi dni. Gospod ustal i zadremal nenadolgo. Haos lukavo ulybaetsya - u nego dlya nas mnogo igr v potemkah. Glavnyj geroj romana Aleksej Ilich YAgnatev, sklonnyj k umerennosti i refleksii, pogruzhennyj v sebya chelovek srednih let ne gotov k oglushitelnym peremenam, proishodyaschim na rubezhe vekov. Rushitsya semya, svyazi s okruzhayuschimi ego lyudmi, voznikaet oschuschenie zapadni. V predstavlenii Alekseya Ilicha neumolimoe vremya delaetsya glavnym vragom chelovechestva. Privychnyj dlya nego put smireniya v novyh obstoyatelstvah okazyvaetsya tupikovym. Roman-razmyshlenie, roman-pritcha, roman-fantaziya polon iskrometnogo yumora, nezhnosti i lyubvi. This book was created using print-on-demand technology.