Bureau of rumors. Offill D.

“Bureau of Rumors” is a voluminous portrait of one family, but at the same time - this is a fascinating reflection on the secrets of proximity and trust and the state of universal shipwreck, which unites us all. The heroine of the novel falls in love, gets married, gives birth to a daughter, teaches literary skills, fights bugs in an apartment, goes to yoga, tries to realize that her husband has a mistress, but this is external. In fact, the primary feeling that everything in the world is connected: our everyday life full of little things, and the words of Kitsa, Kafka, Rilke; love letters with a stamp "Bureau of Rumors" and the desperate experience of Russian astronauts; Tender maternal love and advice to housewives for 1896.

Jenny Offill writes with cold -blooded accuracy, a tongue overflowing rage, wit and frantic longing. She managed to create an exquisitely exciting story about the inconsistency of things and their elusive beauty.