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