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A tall man in a uniform, but without any insignia, who had been sitting at the tail of the shuttle and dozed off the whole flight, also got up and, going to a small cylindrical pedestal located almost at the airlock, put a plastic ticket stub into a special slot. The curbstone immediately purred contentedly, blinked a few lights, and its upper part turned around its axis, revealing a capacious cavity in which lay a tightly stuffed sports bag. The man grabbed the bag and, turning around, headed for the exit. nine0003
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On many other planets of mankind it is even difficult to imagine, there you will be enlightened tenfold, and your documents will be studied almost to the molecular structure. And here, on the old Earth, located in the backyards of human settlements, everything is the same as before. nine0003
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Thirty years old. He leaned back in the seat of the bus and looked absently out the window, his hand slid to the breast pocket of his tunic in a habitual motion.
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- I see.
He fell silent again, looking down. The forest was over, and under the flying machine now sparse groves and small lakes were rushing among the meadows and hills.
- And where are you from, if it's not a secret, of course?
“Yes, there is no big secret,” the man replied. - From Altion.
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The man smiled:
- Just came home.
After paying off the driver and following the car soaring into the sky with his eyes, he looked around and slowly moved down the street. Little has changed here in thirty years. The same rows of two- and three-story cottages immersed in greenery, the same flocks of children rushing through the streets; even the painfully familiar school building was in place.
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Here is the house. He froze, then slowly pulled the gate towards him. A familiar path lined with mosaic tiles that changes its pattern once a day. The finger rested on the call button.
A melodious melody rang out somewhere inside the house.
- I'm going, I'm going.
Painfully familiar voice. A hand clenched the handle of the bag, a lump came up to the throat. He tore at the tight collar of his tunic. The door opened.
A tall, slender woman with long, almost to the waist, blond hair stood on the threshold, staring blankly at the guest with piercing green eyes. Then suddenly she gasped and leaned her shoulder against the door frame. nine0003
“Here I am back,” the man suddenly fell to his knees and, wrapping his arms around the woman’s waist, pressed himself against her. - Mother.
“Son,” tears flowed from the woman’s eyes in streams. - Son. I knew I was waiting... No, we were waiting.
- We? He lifted his head and looked blankly at his tearful mother.
- Yes, we are. She's waiting for you.
He rose from his knees and hesitantly stepped over the threshold.
“Come on, you fool, in your room,” his mother pushed him in the back.
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He walked down the corridor and, going up the stairs, hesitated for a moment in front of the door. His hand slid to his breast pocket, the dolphin suddenly came to life and thrashed under his hand, bursting into a long whistle. The door swung open abruptly.
A waterfall of bright green hair, huge, half-faced eyes, a snub nose, a narrow chin, and a small mouth with pale pink lips.
- Kirill!!!!
He grabbed the girl by the thin shoulders and pressed her tightly to him.
- I'm back, Lime, I'm back.
Books for the summer: what to read
At the request of the Rules of Life, the editor-in-chief of the Storytel book service Anastasia Zavozova has chosen 10 book novelties for the summer. Her selection includes an ideal Scandinavian novel about isolation, an analogue of Yanagihara's "Little Life", the biggest Taiwanese bestseller of recent years, a self-help book about a woman who at first did not understand anything about life, and then understood everything at once.
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"Real Life", Brandon Taylor
This book is quite often and persistently compared with "A Little Life", but you need to understand that the vector of despair and hopelessness here is completely different. in its cruelty to trials, where the very macabre fabulousness of the story helped endure a seven-hundred-page sandwich of love and miserable porn, Taylor's novel is emphatically real. , because for him - a person placed in an academic white environment, in a world, as if entirely consisting of tanned, golden, impossibly opposite people - for him this life, in which he has no points of contact, becomes almost the same The reader may find it difficult to get used to Wallace, he is much like Yanagihar's Jude, trampling around in a circle Not your inner pain, but Taylor was able to perfectly convey the universal and well-known feeling of alienation to the world, from which you yourself can not move away.
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"The Island", Sigridur Hagalin Bjornsdottir
In a sense, this is an ideal Scandinavian novel, because it palpably gives off that isolated isolation of the scene, which we find, say, in Halldor Laxness's "Independent People", classics of Icelandic literature, where a separate farm stands in the middle of nothing and existential clouds gather over it. "Island" is also in many ways a story about isolation, about the slow flow of time, which seems to stop, as soon as a person separates from the world and country, and about a place that begins to grow, as it were, in the human mind, to appear in detail with stones, a gray sea, salted boards and the cries of seagulls, when it suddenly turns out that, apart from this observable place, a person has nothing left. from the complete disconnection of Iceland from the Internet, when external troubles, wars and new and there remains only what you can reach with your hand - only things and stones, if in your life, as the main character, there are no more people left.
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Istanbul Bastard by Elif Shafak
Of all the novels in the selection, this one is probably the most summery, the most, perhaps, vacation, despite the fact that it touches on many important topics, from the Armenian genocide to universal human connection, consonance, which sometimes overcomes the most severe cultural differences. But best of all, Elif Shafak, probably, manages to recreate the feeling of the city in the text. Of course, her Istanbul is Istanbul emphatically postcard, export, as if created from the grateful memory of tourists and drunken readers But this Istanbul and the story of a big house where sisters, aunts and daughters live, connected by common secrets and different traditions, where everyone is always cooking and eating something, gossip, drink tea and rush only to the past, to something very rhymes with the summer weather, with a vacation from real life to the best.0003
"The Seeker" by Tana French
With each new novel, French moves further and further away from his Dublin police detectives, which already seem like some unbearably perfect detective fiction, a rare combination of spring intrigue and pure, convincing style.
In his own novels - and The Seeker, of course, is already much more of a novel than a detective story, like her previous story detuned from serialization, The Witch Elm - French also adds more romance: at ease, in a Tarttian way, pulls the exposition, generously spends pages on creating a place, not action, diverts the focus from the investigation to the area of vague forebodings and the raw uncomfortability of someone else's soul.Her hero, a former policeman Cal, who exchanged a large American city for what he thought was a quiet Irish outback, spends half of the book on a leisurely repairing and shuffling sandpaper over wood as the invisible web of a small community weaves around it, into which, in the second half of the book, Cal and tsya. The meditativeness, the immersion of the narrative in the natural here is such that somewhere in the forest in the neighborhood, Prishvin's dacha is undoubtedly burning down, but how cozy, dear reader, smoke is drawn from there. nine0003
"Instant death", Alvaro Enrige
In this book there is a tennis match between the artist Caravaggio and the poet Quevedo, a list of property sold on the church porch of the property of the conquistador Cortes, cut off braids of Anna Boleyn, they are only hidden in four tennis ball-ball, Mary Magdalene with a crooked finger, the story of one scapular, one executed executioner, the pope and the king in the role of the right and left balls and much more, the most diverse history of the Latin-speaking world (with all its derivatives), both true and delightfully fictional The novel by Mexican writer Alvaro Enrige is set up like a renaissance tennis match, where ideas and stories fly back and forth, horses, people, money, masterpieces of art, continents and peoples.
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"Everything I don't remember", Jonas Hassen Kemiri
Jonas Hassen Kemiri wrote the most cited text in Sweden in recent times. His article is believed to be an open letter to Justice Minister Beatrice Ask about the law, according to to which the police, in order to fight the influx of illegal immigrants into the country, could check the documents of everyone in a row, and especially, of course, people of non-local appearance, was seen and read by about every Swedish Twitter user. But this letter is read, of course, also because Kemiri is the most important Swedish non-Backman today, the author of really complex psychological prose, who collected all the Swedish National Bests and Big Books. pasting memories of different people - from a random neighbor to a best friend - about a young man Samuel, who either committed suicide or died tragically. All his life, Samuel was obsessed memorization, what was not stored in memory seemed to him unreal, but it turns out that other people do not store Samuel in their memory, but the memory of themselves in him, and this endless fragmentation of the text makes the novel look like a story of genuine memory, non-linear and incorrect, but coming to life in the most unexpected things.
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"Fang Siqi's First Love Garden of Eden", Li Yihan
Finally, thanks to the Need Help Foundation, which started publishing a kind of books on the edge, books about necessary but difficult to pronounce experiences, we have there will be an opportunity to read the biggest Taiwanese bestseller of recent years, which terribly rhymed with the fate of the young writer Li Yihan who wrote it. "Garden of Eden" is a tense and at the same time dried up from unnecessary emotions story about the molestation of a twelve-year-old girl by her tutor and about how how this corruption then diverges in circles through a sharply broken young life. “It is believed that the novel describes the experience that Li Yihan herself had to go through,” writes Alina Perlova, a translator and popularizer of modern Chinese literature. “In 2017, shortly after the release of the book, she committed suicide, and the first suicide attempt happened when she was 17.
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"House of Illusions", Carmen Maria Machado
The annotation on the publisher's website says, among other things, that this book is "for readers of intellectual experimental prose, connoisseurs of arthouse in cinema and postmodernism in theater." So, I have good news for you: Machado's book is also readable. In fact, as a writer Machado is strong precisely in this - in how she flawlessly handles really complex, fragmented, collage structure of the text, while not forgetting the main thing , about the story itself.The story of domestic violence that Machado had to face in his youth, and the imposition of this story on the study of the very attitude towards violence in cisgender lesbian couples, when a woman acts as an abuser, when, as Machado writes, the abuser is equal to to you, she builds it like a guidebook of literary tropes, but this guidebook is a whirlpool of short chapters, where the experienced violence alternately o appears as a film noir, a gothic novel, a folk tale, a pulp novel, the tale of Bluebeard, the Star Trek and Doctor Who series - first of all remains an understandable and very universal story about what happens when your house turns into a fortress into an illusion.
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"Capable people", Klas Ekman
There is such a film - "Green Butchers", where Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolai Lie Kaas are still notoriously young. This is a sincerely Danish black and in every sense meat comedy about how two unfortunate butchers are forced to hide trees in the forest, a dismembered human corpse among other pieces of meat on the counter, but suddenly people are more willing to buy from them than anything else, and the men have to slightly increase its supply. rhymes a lot with this film. Here, in the same way, one sudden corpse completely changes the lives of two lovers who just wanted to spend the weekend together, fenced off from wives, husbands and curious colleagues with lies like sandbags. But in the end, one lie clings to another, the dead (both real and fictional) suddenly go together, and then the usual everyday drama turns into a genuine Scandinavian noir, when some of your samples Lemes with others are resolved only with the help of, say, a blow with a blunt object.
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"Indomitable" by Glennon Doyle
We have a bestseller coming out this summer, about which it is almost impossible to write something more objective than a summary of the plot. So, in short, this is a story about a woman who first I didn’t understand anything about life, and then I understood everything at once. Why is it so difficult to evaluate this book with at least a minimal degree of objectivity? Because Doyle’s story is like, say, another bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, which is very similar to her - you can either not even love with all your heart, but understand with your whole body, or hate with all your heart.This is such an autobiographical self-help that works only at the level of some bodily emotions, when it hits the reader at the right moment and literally penetrates into Doyle's book can be read as a joyful, heartfelt preaching by a man whose life has just turned upside down, or as a lamentation from a freelancer in a coworking space to miners in a mine.
