In Russian for the first time— the newest novel by the author of the famous “Half-Brother,” translated into more than 30 languages and turned into an international sensation. He prefers to be called the Smart One, but his peers call him Chaplin. In the summer of 1969, when everyone expects the Americans to land on the Moon, he tries to write a poem dedicated to our heavenly satellite, experiences his first love, and learns to fish with a lure. And many years later, he will write a novel about Frank Farrellly as he steps into the responsible position of Mediator in a city called Carmack, with an incredibly high statistics of accidents. The Smart One doesn’t yet know that his path and Frank’s will inevitably cross…