In search of blue. Loury L.

The second part of the Tetralogy Lois Lowori, like the “giving”, describes the closed community with its rigid laws. After a global catastrophe on Earth, it seems that there were no cities, no cars, or railways. The girl Kira lives in the village, where help is a rarity, to get food is luck, and death lies in wait for anyone - from the illness or from the clutches of predatory creatures. Khoma Kira has little chance, especially since the neighbors consider it a burden and want to kill her. But this cannot be done without the permission of the keepers. Her amazing gift allows her to withstand the hatred of the neighbors and the court of elders Kira - she herself did not know what she was capable of.

with the “giving”, the first part of the tetralogy, “in search of blue” is connected only by a thin thread (although attentive ” The reader will find the answer to the main question - about the fate of Jonas). Nevertheless, these books are very similar: both describe the world that people who inhabitants perceive him as correct and the only possible, and only the main characters realize that he is permeated with a lie and should become different.

That's what that Lois Lowori speaks of his novel: “Having completed work on the“ giving ”, for some reason I publicly stated that he had no continuation-it was in 1993. In 2000, the second book was published, “In Search of Blue”. I was not going to connect these two stories - I created a completely different, also very interesting world for me, where everything was completely different. But at some point, I realized that I could answer some questions-and over the years I have been asked more than once or twice, what the “giving” ended. So at the end of “In Search of Blue” I mentioned Jonas. More precisely, I did not name him by name, but the children who really wanted to know about his fate understood who they were talking about. ” (Interview The Wire, 2012)

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