Chertezh N'iutona - Aleksandr Ilichevskii

Alexander Ilichevsky (b. 1970) is a prose poet and poet, winner of the Russian Booker Prize (Matisse) and The Big Book (Perth).
The hero of his new novel "Newton's Drawing" makes three big journeys: holding the way to an American religious sect, crossing the Nevada desert by car, peering into its landscape, sleeping in provincial towns; disassembles the heritage of an abandoned Soviet laboratory on Pamir, among the mountains and locals with their simple life and deep beliefs; looking for in Jerusalem father - a famous poet, dreamer, tramp, idol of creative parties and connoisseur of ancient history of the Holy Land ...
"Newton's Drawing" is a book with extensive, detailed and colorful geography: Nevada, Pamir, Jerusalem... The main character - a physicist dealing with the "problem of dark matter" - is looking for a missing father. This search more broadly turns into a metaphorical encounter with a lost God or a god-with-small-letter - some kind of backbone idea in which you believe. And in fact, it doesn't matter if it's science or religion. As the Catholic holy padre Pio often said to his spiritual children, who complained of God's abandonment: "My son, you cost him too much for Him to leave you." If you understand, at the root of this statement - pure physics.
Sergey Kumysh, RBC STYLE