The novels "Bro's Path", "Ice" and "23,000", written in the first half of the 2000s, are connected by a dynamic plot and fully demonstrate the signature features of Sorokin's prose - carnival, reification of metaphor, deconstruction of the genre. But at the same time, the writer seriously reflects on the nature of the idea of ​​​​being chosen and its doom, on the origins of the tragedies of the 20th century, on what is the true strength and weakness of man.

World and Russian history are presented in a sharp and unexpected authorial interpretation, no less exciting than the "ice" version of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite.