What to read from the classics on vacation. Don't know what to read on vacation? List of eleven good books. Create a summer mood, kill time on the beach, lie in a hammock with a thoughtful look and a plump volume in your mouth - we have options here.
Finist - Clear Falcon. Andrey Rubanov
Either a dark fairy tale or a wild Slavic fantasy just won the National Bestseller award, and that means something. Rubanov writes an oral visit - the storytellers, of whom there are three, pass on their incredible stories from mouth to mouth, because of this, the text turns out to be juicy, lively, colloquial. The plot is unusual: three Ivans, a buffoon, a blacksmith and a robber, meet on their way the green-eyed girl Marya, who lost her head because of an unknown non-human named Finist - the Clear Falcon. Three Ivans, each in their own way, help her find her beloved, although they themselves fall in love with Marya so that at least the grass does not grow.
Conversations about happiness. Arkady Pants
Do you think about happiness and the meaning of life? A kind, sincere and informative book by Arkady Pants will definitely come up with a couple of interesting ideas. Psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst Arkady Pants shares his experience, observations, thoughts and feelings that he has accumulated over thirty-five years of professional activity. especially suitable for those who are currently looking for themselves, trying to understand what exactly is HIS happiness.
Food unit. Aleksey Ivanov
Alexey Ivanov (,) is a multifaceted person. Whatever he writes about, it always turns out incredibly exciting. His novel is about... vampires in a pioneer camp. And also about the conflict of dry pioneering ideology and a sunny, joyful childhood.
Like everything that comes out of Ivanov's pen, this story is superficially simple, driving and even funny. But the deep questions that the author raises require the reader to think seriously.
Commander's assassination. Haruki Murakami
Sometimes on vacation you are drawn to long meditative discussions, and then you can pick up Murakami with his paradoxical, not quite oriental and definitely not western prose. A new book about an artist who decides to retire to a quiet Japanese province and listen to himself. Everything would have been peaceful and calm, if not for the painting “The Killing of the Commander”, found in the attic, if not for the ringing of a Buddhist bell at night, if not for the strange crypt that arose from under a stone mound in the middle of the thickets, if not for the meeting with esthete Mansiki, who for fabulous money asked to paint a portrait - first of his own, and then, perhaps, of his daughter, if not for an attempt to understand himself.
Knife. Yu Nesbø
If you love detective stories, you're probably already familiar with Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series. As if specifically for the holiday season, the Scandinavian released the twelfth book about the detective. Fast-paced and sinister noir, this time about what demons lurk in the depths of the detective's own self.
A brutal murder has been committed in Oslo. In this case, Harry Hole plays an unusual role - he does not lead the investigation, but the list of suspects. Hole is sure that he is innocent. Or... almost certain.
Threshold. Sergey Lukyanenko
A hot novelty from - a book - is written in the space opera genre. It has new galactic civilizations, spaceships, a universal threat, a rich plot, humor and well-written characters. Lukyanenko once again created an entire universe, and "The Threshold" becomes an exciting and full of details Intro to the new world in which the heroes of his subsequent stories will exist. A must read for all fans of good science fiction!
Stranger. Stephen King
- a novelty from, which once again confirms: the King of Horrors does not age. Take it with you on vacation if you want to completely disconnect from pressing problems and immerse yourself in a very dynamic, chilling reading matter.
King, as always, skillfully juggles genres: horror, thriller, detective - everything is in one here. The corpse of a boy is found in the park of the small town of Flint City. All evidence and witness statements point to a youth baseball coach, English teacher, husband and father of two daughters. Is he capable of this?
Silent patient. Alex Michaelides
The life of Alicia Berenson, a famous artist, seems to be perfect. She is married to a fashion photographer and lives in a luxurious house in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London. Late one evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from another shoot, Alicia shoots him five times in the face. And since then he hasn't said a word. The criminal psychotherapist assigned to Alicia understands that not everything is smooth and obvious in this case. He will have to talk to his silent patient, but will he regret it? ..
Sex is always a good idea! Even if we are talking about a book with the same name. In this popular science guide, Daria Varlamova and Elena Foer will tell you a lot about the most diverse aspects of human sexuality, from the neurochemistry of libido and the phenomenon of wandering erogenous zones to why middle-aged housewives willingly watch gay porn.
I would like to write, they say, with interesting facts from "Sex" it will be possible to surprise a pretty neighbor on a sunbed, but in fact the book is really useful and important, because it is never too late to understand your own sexuality.
Summer passed like it never happened. But if, like the hero of Oleg Dal in the film of the same name, you have a vacation in September (October, November), the authors of the best telegram channels about books, at the request of Sobaka.Ru, advised publications with which you can have a great weekend. And weekdays, by the way, too.
Ekaterina Aksenova
On vacation, it’s good to take something both exciting and respectable (so that you can answer the question “what are you reading without hesitation”) and memorable. If the book also provides food for discussion over long lazy breakfasts, that's great!
In 2018, excellent candidates for a joint trip to distant countries were:
Andrey Zhuravlev "Creation of the Earth. How living organisms created our world
This is fresh domestic science-pop, which effectively blows up the mind of the reader. And if the warm sea and the alien sky sets you in a philosophical mood - it's time to read a story stretched over four billion years, in which funny lumps of protoplasm successfully turn a piece of stone into our cozy world. And they create all the main minerals, and raise mountains, and change the climate, and periodically arrange a complete apocalypse. The book is not easy, but when are we, if not on vacation, to remember that the brain is not only for budgets and reports?
Amanda Hendricks, Charles Walforth Beyond Earth. Looking for a new home in the solar system
After reading it, one gets the feeling that you are ready to build the first space colony on distant Titan. So you can see how people from another world swim in the orange sky above the icy cliffs. The book successfully combines a fantastic line describing the possible development of the colony, information from astronomy and space medicine, and also a story about the structure of the current semi-crazy projects for the exploration of other planets. Bonus: with the knowledge gained, you can blow the imagination of any child from four to ten years old, because in their encyclopedias about space they do not write anything like that.
Valery Shabashov
On vacation, you need to take either very interesting books, or those that you didn’t get your hands on and you can’t get away from them on the beach, since there is no other alternative in your suitcase.
Alexey Ivanov "Gold of rebellion"
Take Aleksey Ivanov's "Gold of Riot" with you. This book will allow you to move from under the scorching sun to the harsh Ural expanses of a mining civilization that has gone forever. Where did the treasury of Emelyan Pugachev and his associates go, only the rafters, the captains of the primitive navigation on the unruly Chusovaya River, know. Reading this book, I did not notice how I flew from Heraklion to Moscow.
Donato Carrisi "The Lost Girls of Rome"
If you love action-packed detective stories and Italy, take Donato Carrisi's novel The Lost Girls of Rome. The secret police of the Vatican has been fighting the most insidious criminals for centuries, but the villain who confronts her in the 21st century is not so easy to neutralize. This detective reveals the most sinister secrets of the "eternal city".
Maria Burova
book reviewer, creator of the telegram channel "Woman writes"
JK Rowling "A Very Good Life"
So J. K. Rowling's modest "A Very Good Life" is perfect in this case. Inside this pocket edition is a beautifully illustrated speech by an English writer to Harvard students ten years ago. Its main message is the value of imagination and the positive impact of failure on us. For Potter fans, this book will be another valuable item in the collection, for everyone else - an opportunity to decide on changes in their own lives.
Maya Lunde "History of bees"
The History of Bees is a completely new and topical book. The author of the novel, Norwegian Maya Lunde, is very concerned about the global and irreversible changes that a person makes to the world around him. Three of her heroes live at different times, but their fates are somehow connected with bees. In 1852, amateur naturalist William Savage tries to create a new type of hive. Two centuries later, hereditary beekeeper George Savage witnesses the mass exodus of these insects. At the end of the 21st century, the Chinese woman Theo herself is forced to be like a bee, manually pollinating trees daily for the sake of a starving humanity. The book reads quickly: unexpected turns, moralizing thoughts and sentimental transitions - everything is distributed evenly.
Olesya Skopinskaya
Gerald Durrell "My Family and Other Animals"
An autobiographical and very witty story by little Jerry Darrell about five years spent by the whole family on the flourishing island of Corfu. Fascinated by natural science, he spent days studying insects and animals lurking in the gardens of their villa. Some even managed to become household members. For example, the turtle Achilles and the dove Quasimodo, who gave everyone a surprise by being a dove. Such comical situations dilute the heated discussions of family members about the future and raising children. For me, this book is an endless summer of olive groves, myrtle groves and a childish thirst for discovery.
Ted Chan "The Story of Your Life"
Ted Chan's collection is one of the most awarded in the history of science fiction. In each of the stories there is a sharp social subtext that is relevant to our time, whether it is a rethinking of the myth of the Tower of Babel or the purpose of the golem. Chang's science shows a truly obstinate character, destroying people's illusions about its role in the future of progress.
Chan did not hide that he was inspired by the works of Sartre, his fine tuning in the perception of the world. Therefore, it raises questions from the desire to see the meaning in everything to the victory over discrimination based on appearance. Chan is not shy about exaggerating reality, wanting to reach out to a generation. Might be worth listening to?
Evgenia Lisitsyna
Collection "What happiness!"
But if we average and simplify, then on vacation with a pure heart, every second person can take, for example, the recent collection of stories “What happiness!” from the "Edition of Elena Shubina". Short stories are generally a good choice for holidays. If the resort wind blows the content of the previous text out of your head, then you can always take on a new one without a doubt. And if you don’t like one view of happiness, then the other will definitely hook you.
Others read fantasy or detective stories. And someone prefers the most suitable literature for - romance novels.
Grade
Pauly Levy. Possess you.
A real storm of emotions broke out on the pages of this novel. Love that struck down Eva, a daring seventeen-year-old girl desperately trying to restore justice for her dead father and Philip, a successful judge and businessman tired of dramas.
And gradually, against the backdrop of a love story, a second, detective storyline comes to light, which keeps you in suspense until the last pages. Will the main characters manage to share happiness or will this connection leave only deep ones for both?
Ray Bradbury "Dandelion Wine"
Immerse yourself in the world of a twelve-year-old boy and live one summer with him. Whatever your memories from childhood, after reading this book you will again feel all the experiences, together you will open and understand how subtly we feel everything around us in childhood.
And of course, learn how to make real dandelion wine!
Alex Garland. Beach.
The spirit of adventurism makes the main character go in search of an earthly paradise, which many have heard about, but they could only find the way. White beaches, emerald water, blue skies, great company and complete freedom - what else? Everything is exactly as the hero of the book imagined. However, not everything is as simple as it might seem at first glance, and people in an isolated society begin to go crazy ...
Fannie Flagg "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Stop Cafe"
The famous novel, which describes life and whom fate brought together.
The truly feminine manner of writing the book makes reading it look like a lively conversation with a friend.
Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram
The story in the book is based on real events. The protagonist of the novel escaped from an Australian prison and got to Bombay, where he was a smuggler and participated in the dismantling of local criminal gangs. It is not known how everything would have ended if not for
Going on vacation, I want to take with me something to read that does not require much mental work and at the same time helps to escape from the routine and, perhaps, look at your life and the world around you from a new point of view. And best suited for this are travel stories that change our lives. RIAMO, together with the Chitay-Gorod bookstore chain, has selected 10 new books that you can take with you on vacation.
Virginie Grimaldi "The Day I Started to Live"
After 20 years of boring family life, full of gray days and continuous routine, Marie decides to start all over again. She leaves her husband and goes on a cruise around the world that will change her fate. Marie will make new friends, find her calling and meet true love! Together with her, you will understand what you really want, and learn how to part with old attachments, get rid of empty fears and
Jean-Paul Dideloran "The rest of my life"
The French writer Jean-Paul Dideloran, winner of a dozen prestigious awards, including twice the International Hemingway Prize for collections of short stories, won real fame by writing his first novel, The Morning Reader (2014), at the age of 50. His second novel, The Remaining Life, brilliantly confirmed his reputation as an inimitable storyteller.
A young tanathoprik Ambroise prepares the bodies of the dead for their last public appearance. His carefree grandmother Beth bakes Breton pies every day and can't wait for her grandson to finally find a life partner. Meanwhile, the young social worker Manel brightens up old age for lonely people and with all her heart becomes attached to one of her wards, the kindest confectioner Samuel. Fate brings all four together in the most unexpected way, and an incredible, full of life-affirming humor begins.
Tami Oldham-Ashcraft "In the power of the elements"
The autobiographical book by Tami Oldham-Ashcraft was first published in 1998 and won bestseller status. On September 22, 1983, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp left Tahiti aboard a beautiful sailing yacht to sail to the coast of California. Young, free, in love with the ocean, they hoped that the 30-day passage to San Diego would be their next romantic adventure. But suddenly the adventure turned into a test: on October 11, the yacht was overtaken by the devastating hurricane Raymond, one of the most powerful in history. So, by the will of fate, not only the future, but the very life of young people
Boris Akunin "Walnut Buddha"
The novel "The Nut Buddha" describes the adventures of a sacred figurine, which, by chance, made a long journey from distant Japan to no less distant Muscovy. The Buddha wanders through Russia, agitated by the upheavals of Peter the Great, illuminating souls with the light of satori and helping travelers find their way to their home... “Run around Russia alone, look for wind in the field. No matter how inventive and dexterous one person may be, the state seine is always more grasping. Tsar Peter is great because he understood this truth: he decided to turn a disordered, disorderly country into a harmonious bakufu, as the great Ieyasu did a hundred years ago in Japan. Of course, Russia is still far from the Japanese order. There, from the most radiant top to the most deaf bottom, the rays of state supervision diverge, right down to every five-yards, behind which its observer watches.
Sarah Gio "Back to You"
Once the public was shocked by the story of Charlotte, who was shipwrecked during her honeymoon and returned home only two years later. She spent a lot of time on the high seas, and then on a desert island in the company of an unsociable man named Gray, thanks to whom she was able to survive. Many years later, Charlotte finds a message in a bottle on the shore. This is incredible, but it follows that Gray is still waiting for her on the island, and, in his opinion, since their separation
Maureen Johnson "The Ellingham Case"
Ellingham Academy is a prestigious boarding school known for its outstanding alumni. The founder of the school, Albert Ellingham, selected exceptionally talented children to teach them according to the principle "study is a wonderful game." In 1936, gloomy events take place within the walls of the academy: Ellingham's wife and little daughter were kidnapped by a mysterious villain who calls himself the Evil One. This kidnapping became one of the greatest unsolved crimes in history called the Ellingham Case. Stevie Bell enters Ellingham Academy with the ambitious goal of solving an 80-year-old crime. But as soon as she begins to investigate, the Evil One reappears at school ... And Stevie enters into a dangerous
Peter James "438 Days at Sea"
Peter James is the creator of the internationally acclaimed series of novels about Superintendent Roy Grace, the author of many New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellers, and the winner of several literary awards. An unknown maniac not only killed a young beautiful woman, but for some reason put a gas mask on her before his death. A puzzle just right for Roy Grace, an expert on intricate cases. However, this time the superintendent will have to puzzle over another problem: how to conduct an investigation and at the same time not to miss the chance of a lifetime. The fact is that his wife showed up in another country,
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo "Salt"
If each member of the family has a thousand reasons to hate each other, and it seems that none - to love, an ordinary dinner turns into an ancient tragedy. And we no longer see a mother with three adult children sitting at the table - the picture changes: we face painful memories, deep resentments, suppressed rage, regrets, ugly spiritual scars, unwillingness to forgive. The burden of the past is so heavy that it can crush the future. Before us is a portrait of a family,
Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo "Bedtime Stories for Young Rebels"
The stories told in this book are not quite fairy tales. "99 Inspirational Stories of Incredible Women" are essays on the fates of 100 real-life great women. Reading that may interest not only young, but also older rebels. The heroines of the book are completely different - ballerinas and astronauts, queens and designers, scientists and artists. Coco Chanel, Marie Curie, Queen Elizabeth and many others - all of them are united by the fact that they were not afraid to be the first, discover new things and achieve their own. Each of them has achieved success in their field and helped many people to gain faith in themselves - and all this
Anna Gavalda's new book includes 7 poignant, accurate, tender stories about ordinary people and their lives.
About loneliness, the pain of loss, the magic of meetings and the power of love. Heroes open up to the reader in difficult situations, when everything literally falls apart, and you need to find the strength to start from scratch. A young man who just attended his ex's wedding, a mourning truck driver who shares his grief with a dog, a businessman who has lost a friend who ruins a minibar in a hotel room in Seoul, a father of a family who is called to school by an angry headmistress, a girl who looking for love...
Did you see a mistake in the text? Select it and press "Ctrl+Enter"
Aleksey Ivanov
On summer vacation, I advise you to take a book by Dan Simmons "Terror"(M.: Eksmo, 2015). This is a story about how, in the middle of the 19th century, English research ships, covered in ice in the Arctic, were attacked by an unknown monster. Firstly, the novel is well done and the reader learns a lot about Sir John Franklin's expedition. Secondly, this is a detailed and detailed narrative, which is pleasant to read slowly when there is a lot of free time. Well, and thirdly, in the summer heat, an ice polar shower will be good for contrast.
On the road for the near future, I chose a novel by Josh Bazel "Wild Thing"(M.: Corpus, 2017). I even do not know why. In the store I opened the book in the middle, read a little - and realized that a real writer was talking to me. In addition, this novel is a world bestseller in 2009, and it is recommended by professional Western critics who, unlike ours, do not swallow ten books a week in their free time and value their authority.
Mikhail Gigolashvili
I would recommend two books by my fellow countrymen, wonderful directors George Danelia ( "Chito Grito" M.: Eksmo, 2013) and Irakli Kvirikadze ( "Boy Chasing a Wild Duck" M.: Edited by Elena Shubina, 2016). These books are full of charm, they are easy to read, deep in content. They made me nostalgic for the old days, for Tbilisi of my youth, for all these people, as if they came out of Fellini's paintings. In Danelia's book there are the most amusing episodes of filming from different years, in Kvirikadze's book there are short stories of the Markesian type, but in Georgian voicing and arrangement.
On the road, I will take to re-read the novel by Anatoly Korolyov "Be Bosch"(M.: Geleos, 2003). He made a strong impression on me at the time. In addition, I recently visited the Netherlands, in the native nest of Hieronymus Bosch (the Dutch call him Jerun Bos) - the town of Hertogenbosch, went to the same places where the soul of Bosch hovers, to the places that are so convincingly described in the book of the Queen.
Vladislav Otroshenko
Drago Jancar "I saw her last night"(M.: Rudomino Book Center, 2013. Translated from Slovenian by Tatyana Zharova).
press service Book Center Rudomino
This book has such a history. I was advised to read it, and then presented to me in Ljubljana by the Slovenian specialist in Russian language Borut Krashevits. He promised he would. Didn't cheat. Drago Jančar, born three years after the end of World War II, wrote a book as if about this very war. But in reality, we are dealing with a piercing, bitter, tender, sinister and purifying story that revolves around the tragic death of the main character, the eccentric wife of a Ljubljana rich man and aristocrat, Veronica Zarnik. Jančar does not blur or destroy such concepts as "enemy-friend", "betrayal-loyalty", "winner-loser", "guilty-innocent". No, these concepts fade by themselves in the powerful rays that illuminate the world shown by Janchar. The name of these rays is love, life, death. The story is told by five characters from different angles, from different moral, social, political and ethical positions. Allowing each of the five voices to sound free and original, Jančar doesn't just switch registers - he changes instruments without interrupting the overall melody of the story, which hypnotically draws you into the lives of the characters. And he does it so skillfully that you stop watching his skill. He achieves the goal, which, perhaps, he did not set - there comes a feeling that you hear otherworldly voices. They are on the other side of good, evil, the world itself, and calmly, as if earthly life is already behind them, they testify to heaven.
Mario Vargas Llosa "Humble Hero"(M: Inostranka Publishing House, 2016. Translated from Spanish by Kirill Korkonosenko).
press service Publishing house "Foreigner"
Llosa is a seasoned writer. And not only because at the age of the patriarch (he is over 80) he does not lose the freshness, accuracy and artistic power of the pen, like another patriarch - Russian, who wrote furtively and with young passion "Hadji Murad" on the eighth ten. But also because Llosa, despite the leapfrog of fashion and trends that torment world literature, remains true to himself, to his art. And it's worth it. The book has two parallel stories. In one, the “humble hero” Felicito Yanake enters a war with mysterious blackmailers who want to take tribute from his poor business, in the other, the “humble hero” Ismael Carrera (he has a cooler business) fights to the death with the blockhead sons, selfishly dreaming of his death. This parallelism, this synchronicity in the development of the two plots is as mesmerizing as the movement of a couple masterfully dancing the tango. But the main thing is not this. In Llosa's newly translated novel (in Spanish, the book was published in 2013), the soul finds everything that Latin American literature has pleased and continues to delight since university times - humor, sarcasm, love, witchcraft, humanity, feeling and feeling life.
And this summer I myself am going to be really drunk in order to have time by September, when we will meet with the members of the jury of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize for an exchange of opinions, to read books in the Modern Russian Prose nomination. And, of course, to read not only on duty, but also at the call of the heart. I really want to know what these things are: "Ant King" Suhbat Aflatuni, "Kolokolnikov - Podkolokolny" Xenia Dragunskaya, "Secret Year" Mikhail Gigolashvili, "Iron Steam" Pavel Krusanov, "Song of the Tungus" Oleg Ermakov, "Ivan Auslender" German Sadulaev, "Patriot" Andrey Rubanov and in general all 30 books that were included in the premium long list.
Igor Malyshev
My choice will probably seem strange to someone, but for myself, as a vacation reading, I chose a collection of works "Serapion Brothers"(a literary community that united poets and prose writers who worked in the 1920s in post-revolutionary Russia), which is called "1921", according to the year of the expected publication of the book. It was supposed to be published in a Finnish edition with an introduction by Maxim Gorky, but at first the proofs were miraculously lost, and then no less miraculously found in the 21st century, and as a result, the book was published in 2013 by the publishing house "Limbus - Press". Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Lunts, Vyacheslav Ivanov and many other authors are collected under one cover. Some of the works are published for the first time. A real gift to connoisseurs of literature of that period. I recommend.
And the second book that I could recommend to a much wider circle of readers is (St. Petersburg: Azbuka-Atticus, 2017). About seven or eight years ago, I discovered the Scandinavian detective genre, and Nesbø is perhaps the best representative of this cohort. His books always have a tightly twisted plot, unpredictable endings, reliable psychological portraits, and, of course, a signature Scandinavian noir touch. Great beach read.
Guzel Yakhina
A book for holiday reading needs a special one: moderately serious, moderately funny, moderately exciting. Yes, preferably also one that will be easy to read in small portions: on an airplane, on the beach, in a hotel. In my opinion, a great option for reading on vacation - collections "Moscow: meeting point" and . Both were published in Elena Shubina's Editions, and the last one has just appeared on the bookshelves. "Moscow: a meeting place" is thirty-two essays about the city, thirty-two different views, thirty-two personal stories: Dmitry Bykov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatiana Tolstaya, Yuri Arabov, Andrey Makarevich ... The St. Petersburg collection contains texts by Evgeny Vodolazkin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Mikhail Shemyakin, Alexander Gorodnitsky...
I have prepared for my upcoming vacation. "Manaragu" Vladimir Sorokin (M.: Corpus, 2017) - downloaded to the tablet. A dystopia about the relationship of mankind with literature, a “fun and adventure book” (in the words of the author himself) - why not vacation reading? Perhaps it was worth stopping by the bookstore after all - buying the paper version and reading the novel about the end of the paper book, leafing through the real pages.
Roman Senchin
They say that if you read in the summer, then light, bright, summer books. Therefore, I immediately warn you: my choice is not quite summer. Although ... Good literature is always good. And the three books that I want to briefly talk about, in my opinion, are from this category.
Andrey Rubanov, "Patriot"(M.: Edited by Elena Shubina, 2017).
press service Editorial office of Elena Shubina
This book continues a series of novels by a well-known prose writer and screenwriter about modern Russian reality, about relatively young men who strive to build a business, while, I am not afraid of this phrase, to benefit the country. But since business and crime are still almost synonymous with us, Rubanov's novels give off a criminality. There's nothing to be done about it - what is the time, such are the books.
Hero "Patriot" Znaev is truly a patriot. But confused, exhausted, realizing that he will not bring any benefit, that, on the contrary, he becomes almost an enemy for the state and society. Znaev sees the way out in participation in the war in the Donbass (remember Turgenev's Rudin), but instead of the Donbass, he flees to America, where he disappears. Whether it dies, or hides ...
Andrey Timofeev, "Towards"(M.: Editorial and publishing house "Russian writer", 2016)
press service of the Publishing House "Russian Writer"
This collection of novels, stories and articles about literature demonstrates that we have a new talented and courageous author. Andrei Timofeev takes on very complex and subtle topics, shows the types of our current life, reveals interesting characters to us. This is real Orthodox prose. Not the one that fills the shelves of bookstores and church shops today, but another ... In the tradition of Dostoevsky, Leskov, Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy (even if the Orthodox Church considers him to have fallen away). I will not describe the merits of Timofeev's prose. Read "Ringing Copper", "Wedding", "By the Sea", "In the Warm Rays". The present.
Alexey Shepelev, "Mir-village and its inhabitants"(M.: Eksmo, 2017)
exmo press office
An unhappy book. At the same time, bright, witty, accurate, honest ... They say that village prose is over. No, it exists, because the Russian village continues to live (somehow). "Mir-village and its inhabitants"— new village prose. Without idealization, but without vilification either. It seems that people, and houses, and the earth breathe their last, but it was the same a hundred and fifty years ago, and the breath does not stop. Let's hope it doesn't get interrupted.
I myself am going to read books from the long list of awards in the summer "The big Book". Some already read, some outlined in the first place. Of the planned "City of Brezhnev" Shamil Idiatullina, "Iron Steam" Pavel Krusanov, "Look at him" Anna Starobinets, "Song of the Tungus" Oleg Ermakov.
Mikhail Tarkovsky
I would advise you to take a book by Viktor Petrovich Astafiev on vacation "Last bow"(M.: Eksmo, 2006). It will help restore a true sense of reality and serve as a moral standard that can protect a Russian person from spiritual intervention. Happy reading! The writings of Archimandrite Raphael Karelin are also very soulful. I also advise you to pay attention to the works of a young writer from Siberia Andrei Antipin.
And on the road (you will laugh) I take one book "Driving a Japanese Car" Sergey Kornienko (M.: ID Tretiy Rim, 2005). There is no time to read the rest.
Sergey Shargunov
I can recommend the first of the four "Neapolitan novels" Elena Ferrante - "My brilliant friend"(M.: Sindbad, 2016) about the difficult growing up of two classmates. It seems to me that this sweet worldly book about women's fate is good for a leisurely summer reading. But, in order not to relax, I also advise a dramatic book-poem "Miner's Daughter" Anna Revyakina, a young avant-garde poetess from Donetsk, is about a restless girl who finds herself alone with the war. The poem can be read on the award website. "Lyceum".
Evgeny Chizhov
Since there has been a clear trend among domestic authors for the production of thick novels of 600 pages or more, supported by major literary awards, I would like to draw the attention of readers to another, less noticeable genre - a short story - and recommend a collection for the summer, perhaps the most bizarre of known to me today's writers Denis Osokin "Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari"(M.: Eksmo, 2013). Osokin's stories, which he himself combines into books that seem to have been published in different years in provincial publishing houses, are unusual: mystical, lyrical, erotic, ethnographic, in general, amazing and unlike anything else.
Another collection of short prose - "Centenarians" Vladimir Makanin (M.: Eksmo, 2017) - includes the old texts of the master, but the book was published recently. It included such, for my taste, indisputable masterpieces as "Klyucharev and Alimushkin", "Antileader", "Citizen Runaway". This, at first glance, hard realistic prose, when immersed in it, turns out to be brilliantly paradoxical and unexpected.
If you definitely want to take a novel with you on vacation, I can advise "Forever Alice" Liza Jenova (M.: Eksmo, 2013). The book was released in a touching cover with flowers and butterflies in the series "Cozy Reading". Meanwhile, this is one of the most uncomfortable, disturbing and unsettling books that I have ever read. But if you still decide to read it, perhaps you will feel much deeper, sharper and happier every, even the most cloudy and rainy day of the coming summer.
As for me, I'm going to take a few books with me on vacation. Firstly, the biography of Shukshin (M.: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2015) written by Alexei Varlamov, the best Russian storyteller of the second half of the 20th century and, in general, it seems to me, one of the key figures of Russian culture. His outward simplicity intrigues me no less than the complexity of other luminaries, like Dostoevsky, with whom Shukshin has more in common than a superficial glance might seem.
Secondly, the last and only collection of stories by Asar Eppel that I have not read "Brass Moon"(M.: Astrel, 2010). Eppel's style is the opposite of Shukshin's lapidary style, the language of his stories is thick, colorful, sometimes redundant, but the power of nostalgia that animates them affects me irresistibly.
The stories are read quickly, so in reserve I will also take with me those who have been waiting for their turn for a long time. "Strange War Diaries" Sartre (St. Petersburg: Ed. Vladimir Dal, 2002). Sartre may not be the deepest thinker of the 20th century, but he is almost certainly the best writer among philosophers and the best philosopher among writers. In general, I like to read diaries, all the more interesting to me are the diaries of a philosopher written in a time of crisis, not intended for publication, in which he turns his thoughts to himself with the utmost honesty. Published in France in part in 1983 and in full in 1995, they became a sensation and aroused a new wave of interest in Sartre.
Elena Katishonok
Wherever you are going on vacation, you will need an intelligent guide. Just not a glossy brochure with bright pictures and tempting advertisements, but "Guide to the Orchestra and Its Backyards"(M.: AST, 2015). It was compiled by the writer Vladimir Zisman, who himself was badly injured in the musical field. This book is perfect for those readers whose childhood was overshadowed by the click of a metronome and chromatic scales, and for those who confuse the madrigal with the hamadryl, and consider chamber music to be prison amateur performances. "Guide to the Orchestra..." will make your holiday a holiday. This is a book about the orchestra, music, friends and myself. She is cheerful without snickering; light, but not lightweight, smart, but without thoughtful sophistication. The author has a rare gift to talk about the complex in such a way that the reader is guaranteed colic from laughter. The last sentence: "The author urges the reader not to believe a single word of his" made me go back to the beginning and reread, which I did on vacation with great pleasure. Have a nice holiday!
The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize is an annual all-Russian literary prize established in 2003 by the L.N. Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana" and Samsung Electronics. Awarded to writers whose works carry the humanistic and moral ideals of Russian classical literature. In 2017, the award turned 15 years old, and in honor of the anniversary season, its structure was changed. This year, the jury selects the best works of fiction in two categories: "Modern Russian Prose" and "Foreign Literature", as well as a laureate in the new nomination "Event". The prize in the category "Foreign Literature" will be awarded for the third time, and have become laureates of past years.
