Changeling. Williams D.

Pearl’s young wife and mother loses her husband in the plane crash and remains to live with his family on the island. The population of the island is small: the husband’s brother, his strange wife, the descending professor and a dozen children. Are children? As the translator of the book Dmitry Shepelev writes: “This is a novel about love and despair, about women and men, about adults and children, about people and animals. Like the life of the main character, he masterfully avoids the meaning, like a bird of a trap, he is too beautiful, too monstrous, too truthful. This story is like an atonal symphony, shock therapy, a natural disaster, it will turn you inside out and make you laugh through tears. And the main life lesson that you will receive: do not ask, why should I, ask, why? ”

About the author: Joy Williams Nominant of the Pulitzer Prize, a virtuoso master of words and a genius-submarine whose novel “Replaced” was released in 1978 and greatly ahead of his time.