Stairway to Heaven; Sleep Beatrice. Dryadin A.E.

Did you never want to live a life again or do something otherwise in it? Enter another door? Engage in another profession? Or maybe just choose an appointment, how to make a Russian businessman running from Moscow? And then life would have developed differently. Or not? The novel “Staircase to the Sky” is full of polyphony-its action begins in today's Moscow, then returns to Petersburg of the early 90s, and then mounted as the frames of the film of the head transfer the reader either to New York on September 11, 2001, then in the Covid epidemic. -19 Milan, then to Nizhny Novgorod, then to America of the future. Against this background, the paths of heroes bizarrely intertwined: two friends and business partners, the ballerinas of the Mariinsky Theater, the Italian priest, and the sea captain from Alaska. “Stairs to the sky” is not only an entertaining story with unpredictable plot moves, but also the author’s attempt to affect the eternal “uncomfortable” questions: about value in business and in life, about love and male friendship, about fear and death. And, of course, about the choice or his illusion.