Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt world celebrity, winner of the Goncourt Prize and many other awards His novel “Oscar and the Pink Lady” readers called the book that changed their lives, along with the Bible, “The Little Prince” and “Three Musketeers” His novels have been translated into 45 languages and a total of half a million copies are published in France each year. "Gates of Heaven" - the second volume of Schmitt's grandiose philosophical and romantic saga "The Way Through the Ages" In the first volume of Paradise Lost, the immortal healer Noam survived a worldwide flood. In the future, he will see Ancient Egypt ,. and Renaissance , The Industrial Revolution , In the meantime, in search of his immortal beloved - the incredible Noura ,. The only one for all millennia, - he comes to Mesopotamia , where humanity has invented a preserved and still living way to live together . Big cities instead of small villages; taming rivers and irrigation instead of the delicate and humble worship of Nature; the invention of astronomy and writing - in front of the eternal wanderer, the same progress is being made for which mankind has sacrificed itself since the beginning of its history. And the crown of this progress is the Tower to the heavens, to the very dwelling of the gods, which the slaves raise by order of King Nimrod. The healer enters any house - to the slaves and to Queen Kubab, to the court astrologer and shepherd Abram - and before us in all the details opens a dizzying era, from which mankind inherited so much. For the first time in Russian!