Olga Slavnikova is a famous novelist, essayist, cultural writer, author of the novels Long Jump (Book of the Year Award), 2017 (Russian Booker Prize), Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog, Light Head, and a collection of short stories Love in the Seventh Carriage.As you know, it's good where we don't exist. For the heroes of Olga Slavnikova's book, it's good where they were. In their past. But the world is changing, and reality has descended without warning. And everyone adapts in their own way. Alexey Afanasyevich, the main character of the novel "The Immortal", is helped by his relatives. The knight of the eight military Orders, who passed the Great Patriotic War, has been bedridden for many years and does not know that over the past fifteen years, tremendous changes have taken place in the country. He is carefully shown the news where Brezhnev is still alive and the construction of communism continues, and edited articles from the modern Pravda are read out... However, the former intelligence officer begins to guess that something is wrong here.…The book also includes the short stories "The End of Montplaisir" and "The Mouse".