"Who writes the script of our lives? Is there any scenario?"— a Tbilisi bookish boy, whose childhood was in the 60s of the last century, is trying to understand. He wants to live like the characters in his favorite books. Why everything at all? Is there anything more important in life than love? Not for him, it seems, and his life consists mainly of love stories. But there is also the history of the family, and the history of the country, and the twists of all these stories, leading from Ukraine to Georgia, from Georgia to Russia, from Russia to Israel, and from there to France, which the boy dreamed of since childhood. There are friendships that last a lifetime. When it's not all there, it hurts. There is a guide Book — from childhood and forever. There are many wonderful women. There are adventures, meetings, unexpected turns of fate. There is a princess who is waiting for him in the Burgundy castle, their wedding will be there — that seems to be the end of the fairy tale. And then everything goes to hell because of an unexpected and completely unnecessary meeting... Forty years later. A family saga? An adventurous romance? Or roguish? Or a love one? A kind of philandering "anti-Lolita" — given the character's penchant for "adult" ladies? It's all there in the book.…WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT?'The First Monday in April is a multi—layered novel in which several timelines and destinies are intertwined.The prologue is called "A Corpse in a dumpster": indeed, around these days, a Tbilisi garbage collector discovers a bloody man in a dumpster. The story goes back to the past, and it is necessary to explain who, how, why and why. The main character is, one might say, a man with no specific occupation: a translator, a tour guide, an outpatient driver, and also a musketeer, returns from France to his native Tbilisi to sort out his feelings for the woman he loved in his youth and whom he had inexplicably forgotten.The novel combines:— A touching love story that has been carried through the decades, but against the background of many others;— Ironic sketches from the life of Soviet Tbilisi and modern France, but against the background of historical excursions (and excursions);— A family chronicle where everyone loves each other, but poisons each other's lives; — The happy ending of "Eugene Onegin", but also the libretto of the opera about Jeanne d'Ark;— Reflections on the fate, choice and authorship of the "script of our life"...According to those who have already read, the novel, written in lively, imaginative language, with subtle humor, captivates from the first pages and does not let go until the finale.There is not the slightest reason not to trust such reviews.