Prayer for Owen Mini. Irving J.

The tragicomic saga of John Irving, the largest prose writer of our time, the author of the world-famous novels, including the Eyes of the Harp and the Hotel “New Hampshire”, “Rules of Winemakers” and “Men not Her Life”, “Last Night on a winding river ”and“ Son of the circus ”. This is a panoramic burlesque, similar in scope with the "massacre number five" of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller Culust-22. The story of a boy who does not know doubt, who gains strange power over people and the very course of things.

The book is full of mystical coincidences and mirror repetitions, in turn repeating - sometimes ironically - the plot of the Gospel. How did it happen that the eleven -year -old Owen Mini, accidentally killing the mother of his best friend, comes to God? Why will a smart, lop -eared child, like Christ, will seize his fate: he knows exactly when and how he will die. According to Stephen King, “no one has yet shown Christ as Irving in his novel.”