Grace

For the first time in Russian - the novel by contemporary Irish classic Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for the novel "The Song of the Prophet", which is already being called the "Irish '1984'" and the "new 'Handmaid's Tale'". From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Marianne) - "an epic fresco, a rogue novel, and a captivating coming-of-age story all at once" (La Vie). So, meet fourteen-year-old Grace. One frosty morning, her mother drags her outside, cuts her hair, orders her to change into men's clothing, and sets her on a journey - otherwise, she will not survive in Ireland at the dawn of the Great Famine. Thus begins a hallucinatory bright odyssey through an unbearable world, embodied in hypnotic prose that "flows like good Irish whiskey"... (RT Book Reviews) "A poignant literary creation of lyrical... beauty, which reads like an organic blend of John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'" (The Washington Post).