Under the sign of a black swan. Mitchell D.

David Mitchell Modern Classic of British Literature, twice the finalist of the Buker Prize, the author of such intellectual bestseller as the “Bone Clock”, “Cloud Atlas” (recently filmed by Tom with a pumpkin and brothers Vachovsky), “Hungry House” and others. “Under the sign of the Black Swan,” this is a romance of growing up, and Mitchell more than confidently performed in the territory, traditionally associated with names such as Salinger, Bradbury and Harper Lee. So, welcome to the village of the Luck of the Black Swan (where “in fact there is no swan, this is, in general, such a joke”). Jason Taylor is thirteen years old, and we will see his life for thirteen months, from one January birthday to another. He fights stuttering, secretly writes poetry, dogs with his older sister and hopes not to sink in the school hierarchy to the level of Dina Dupan, nicknamed Durgery. Meanwhile, there is a Falkland war in the Atlantic, there are queues for “fire chariots” in the cinemas, and in the father’s office, where “the rotating chair is almost the same as in the gun towers of the“ falcon of the millennium ”by laser batteries, and mysterious telephone telephone is sounded and then and then the mysterious telephone Calls “Under the sign of a black swan” the perfect cast of time and place, not a single fake note ”(Telegraph). The translation is published in the new edition.