Дэвид Безмозгис – лучшие книги

"Наташа и другие рассказы" - первая книга писателя и режиссера Д. Безмозгиса (1973), иммигрировавшего в возрасте шести лет с семьей из Риги в Канаду, была названа лучшей первой книгой, одной из 25 лучших книг года. А по списку "Нью Йоркера" 2010 года Безмозгис вошел в двадцатку лучших писателей до сорока лет. Критики увидели в Безмозгисе наследника Бабеля, Филипа Рота и Бернарда Маламуда. В этом небольшом сборнике, рассказывающем о том, как нелегко было советским евреям приспосабливаться к жизни в такой непохожей на СССР стране, драма и даже трагедия - в духе его предшественников - соседствуют с комедией.

These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where, in an unexpected turn of events, he comes face-to-face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost 40 years earlier. In a mere 24 hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a…

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"―the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume.

The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, and Salvatore Scibona; the satirical comedy of Joshua Ferris and Gary Shteyngart; and the genre-bending tales of Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Téa Obreht. David Bezmozgis and Dinaw Mengestu offer clear eyed portraits of immigration and identity; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ZZ Packer, and Wells Tower offer voice-driven, idiosyncratic narratives. Then there are the haunting sociopolitical stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, and Yiyun Li, and the metaphysical fantasies of Chris Adrian, Rivka Galchen, and Karen Russell.

Each of these writers reminds us why we read. And each is aiming for greatness: fighting to get and to hold our attention in a culture that is flooded with words, sounds, and pictures; fighting to surprise, to entertain, to teach, and to move not only us but generations of readers to come. A landmark collection, 20 Under 40 stands as a testament to the vitality of fiction today.

Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --
The warm fuzzies / Chris Adrian --
Second Lives / Daniel Alarcón --
The train of their departure / David Bezmozgis --
The Erlking / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum --
The pilot / Joshua Ferris --
Here we aren't, so quickly / Jonathan Safran Foer --
An arranged marriage / Nell Freudenberger --
The entire northern side was covered with fire / Rivka Galchen --
The young painters / Nicole Krauss --
The science of flight / Yiyun Li --
An honest exit / Dinaw Mengestu --
What you do out here, when you're alone / Philipp Meyer --
Twins / C.E. Morgan --
Blue water djinn / Téa Obreht --
Dayward / ZZ Packer --
The dredgeman's revelation / Karen Russell --
The kid / Salvatore Scibona --
Lenny hearts Eunice / Gary Shteyngart --
The landlord / Wells Tower

Award-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic” In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal, where he discovers new designs on the past in “How It Used to Be.” A grandfather’s Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in “Little Rooster.” In “Childhood,” Mark’s concern about his son’s phobias evokes a shameful incident from his own adolescence. In “Roman’s Song,” Roman’s desire to help a…

"Предатели" - второй роман Дэвида Безмозгиса - рассказывает об одном дне из жизни Баруха Котлера, видного израильского общественного и государственного деятеля, в прошлом - знаменитого диссидента-отказника, отсидевшего долгие годы в советской тюрьме. В этот день Котлер нежданно-негаданно встречает человека, в свое время донесшего на него в КГБ. И этот день переворачивает его представления и о событиях своего прошлого, и его планы на будущее. За этот день Баруху Котлеру предстоит не только понять, как и почему друг его предал, но и понять, как и почему сам он сейчас предал жену, которая долгие 13 лет боролась за его освобождение, и детей.

Welcome to Rome. It's the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family are passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy (especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them), and it's harder still when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they're no longer passing through at all. On the contrary, they're stuck. Welcome, then, to a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled…