Yuri Mamleev is the founder and the recognized master of the metaphysical realism genre. This is end-of-the-world literature, exploring black holes and abysses opening in human souls. “Life is the heavens’ mockery of the earth,” the writer himself used to say. In Mamleev’s prose, mysticism is firmly intertwined with reality. “Wandering Time” is a novel about a person’s encounter with a new reality that combines scientific progress, moving deeper into the universe, and a return to the tradition of Indian epics. It’s an adventurous novel about the search for a new Moscow intelligentsia traveling through time and finding a “post-death” peace.