For the first time in Russian - a new novel by E. -E. At the age of twenty-eight, Schmitt undertook a hiking tour of the Sahara Desert. He went there as an atheist, and ten days later returned a deeply religious man. Away from the usual environment, the writer and playwright discovered a simple life, made friends with the Tuaregs . And then he got lost in the vastness of Ahaggar .. For thirty hours, he did not eat or drink anything, he did not understand where he was and whether they will be able to find him. And the night spent under the stars, opened to him a new spiritual path. It changed him forever.... But what happened that night? What did he hear? What made such a sharp, indelible impression on this philosopher-agnostic? In his new book “Night of Fire”, the writer tells about the adventures-filled wandering, and about the way into his own “I” . For the first time . -E. Schmitt reveals to us his inner world, showing how the seemingly well-established life of a person and a writer, his views in an instant can change dramatically.