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Iceland is not only a country, but also a very special neighborhood of Jerusalem, a full-fledged hero of the new novel by Alexander Ilichevsky, winner of the Russian Booker and Big Book awards, a novel dedicated to oblivion as a source of imagination and new life. Text according to Ilichevsky is the main phenomenon not only of civilization, but also of personality. It is in words that the heroes of "Iceland" find the mysterious support of existence, but only in love can we find its meaning.
Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Baku, Los Angeles, Jerusalem - the hero travels through the cities, the history of his family and his own life. What awaits a man who agreed to an experiment on the implantation of a silicon capsule in the brain and replace part of the physiological functions of the organic algorithms? Is it possible to remain oneself, renting one's consciousness to the World Association of Computing Power? This is not a novel of nurture, but of finding oneself on earth, where science meets wonder.