What is life like in the world without paper books? In the world where they survive in museums or are used as barbecue charcoal at snobbish parties...

Following his novels Day of the Oprichnik and Telluria the author once again offers a terrifying prospect of the impending future. Worldwide war changes everything. Books aren't published or printed anymore and survive only in museums. A new trend is spreading among the rich snobs – book'n'grill where meat is prepared on the remains of paper books. They are supplied by a community of the cooks who prepare the food themselves. However, a group of people living in the caves of the mountain Manaraga attempts to bring the fancy snobbish time killer down to the mass and to fast foods...

Sorokin offers an unanticipated flow of thoughts on the relationship of humanity to printed word. What will the future of a printed book look like in the world of the wise fleas and holograms after the New Middle Ages and Second Islamic Revolution? Unusual calling of the main character – an illegal, a romantic, a master of one's craft makes us look at printed books in a new way. The novel of Sorokin can be read as an epitaph for printed books as well as a celebration of the eternal life.