The Theseus Paradox

St. Petersburg. Grand facades hidden behind construction scaffolding, battered columns, collapsing plaster that hurts and crumbles. This yellow, dirty, majestic city visibly turns to dust. A group of eccentric guerrilla-art restorers sets out illegally to restore a ballroom in a derelict manor—and to attract money, they stage a daring art action… But what will be left of them after that?

The city is a space of choice, where people learn their worth, and only some get a chance at salvation. The novel is a hymn to an active person, a person with a big heart—a surprising and necessary work about the power of one individual and the inevitable responsiveness of the world even to the smallest action.