Robert Heinlein's novel is unusual both in story and in its construction. It's a symphony novel .. Do not be afraid, dear fans of fiction, it has everything that you should like, and fiction including. It’s just made according to the musical canons foreplay, counterpoint, intermedia, there are even variations on the theme. Lazarus Long , Known to readers since Heinlein's early Children of Methuselah. Longevity, Moreover, the oldest representative of the human race (at the time of the novel action the 4325th earth year it has already exceeded two thousand (!!!) years). passed the way (year of birth 1912) from a cadet of the US Navy to … An interplanetary trader, one of the richest people in the galaxy, a successful colonizer, a generous, loving husband - and yet a man willing to risk all his connections, all his fortune, to participate in an experiment with time and return to childhood. The translation of the novel is published in a new edition.