Ten blacks. Life of Pi. A set of 2 books. Christie A., Martel Ya.

A set for lovers of detectiveges and adventures consists of 2 books: “Ten are black” and “Life Pi”

Roman “Ten Negro” - one of the greatest detective works in history. Released by a total circulation of more than 100,000,000 copies, it takes fifth place in the list of bestsellers of fiction of all time - and the unconditional first place among the novels of Agatha Christie itself.

Agatha Christie is the most published author of all time and peoples after Shakespeare. The circulations of her books are inferior only to the circulations of his works and the Bible. More than a billion books of Christie in English have been sold in the world and the same amount in other languages. She is the author of eighty detective novels and collections of stories, twenty plays, two books of memoirs and six psychological novels written under the pseudonym Mary Westmakott. Her characters Erkul Poiro and Miss Marpl forever became the exemplary heroes of the action -packed genre.

“Ten Negro” Agatha Christie considered her best work. Under this name, Roman came out in 1939, all subsequent publications were printed under the more political correct name "... and there was no one." The novel was the first work with the topic of “ideal murder”, and also served as an example for creating many detective books and psychological films in which techniques from this work were fully or partially used. He was repeatedly filmed, but only the Soviet two-part television film Stanislav Govorukhin fully corresponded to the storyline with a gloomy ending.

“Life of Pi”-Roman-laureate of the 2002 Buker Prize, was written about the journey not of anyone, but a little Indian and... Bengal Tiger! And not somewhere, but in a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!

"Life Pi" made a real cultural explosion in the world intellectual environment. The fantastic journey of the young man and the Bengal tiger described in the novel echoes the story “Old Man and the Sea”, with the magical realism of Marquez and with the absurdity of Beckett. The book became not only a bestseller, but also a symbol of the literature of the new century, the flag of a new culture.

In 2012, the novel was filmed and received four Oscars.