Ladybug. Amur novels. Kupriyanov A.I.

In this book of the famous writer and journalist Alexander Kupriyanov, two completely different novels are presented: “Black Belchik” and “God's Layer”, united by the Far Eastern color. Deep knowledge of ethnography, customs and traditions of Nivkhs allows the author to paint the beauty of the Lower Amur nature and draw mass scenes - such as, for example, the central rite of a bear’s cult of the northern peoples, called the "Feast of the Bear." And if in the Black Belchik the protagonist makes a fatal path for himself from the Nizhneamur taiga to the boiling and very modern Moscow, then in the “God's cow” the main theme of the work is still love.

Kupriyanov will easily create an atmosphere of phantasmagoria, combining the past and even the future, collecting almost Fellini masses with his writing fantasy. But at the same time, a daring feeling from lost love, the advancing autumn and the tart taste of the taiga berry on the lips will not leave indifferent the most demanding reader.