Famous novel of the modern classics, Pulitzer Prize winner, finalist of many other prestigious literary awards, the book of the decade according to Entertainment Weekly ; “War and Peace” in the American way without aristocrats, but with superheroes, an epic story of friendship, love and loneliness, human tragedy and new art "Cavalier & Clay" is a creative duo of brilliant draftsman Joseph Cavalier and his New York cousin Sammy Kleiman, a writer with a truly boundless imagination. The student of the illusionist Joseph (in his new homeland Joe) makes his first successful escape: from the German-occupied Prague, in one coffin with the mystical symbol of the Jewish people the Prague golem. Joe and Sam begin to produce a comic book about the superhero Escapist - and the more disturbing the news coming from Europe, the more illusory the hopes of Joe to save the relatives who remained in Prague, the stronger the Nazis are beaten by the Escapist … The novel is published in a new translation and with additional materials - deleted scenes, a new afterword from the author and much more. The book contains a profanity war.