For the first time in Russian - a new novel from the author of "The Portrait of Mrs. Sharbuk" and "Girls in Glass", awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Association of Detective Writers of America . As Ray Bradbury in his masterpiece “Dandelion Wine” forever mapped the world literature of the American Midwest pre-war period, and Jeffrey Ford in the “Year of Ghosts” masterfully reproduces the taste, color and feeling of childhood. Here , on Long Island on the eve of the "flower revolution" ice cream delivery Mr. Tai-wo-rtu , Students are asked to make a plaster moon at home , A Drowned City In The Basement Predicts A New Ghost Phenomenon It scares the housewives ,. and leaves behind a train of corpses sinister Mr. White , tube tobacco lover and manic apologist of purity …