Under the sign of black swan

David Mitchell is a modern classic of British literature, twice the finalist of the Buker Prize, the author of such intellectual bestsellers 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” is a romance of growing up, and Mitchell has 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 meadow of a black swan (where “in fact there are no swans ... 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 Dupilo, nicknamed Black. 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 “a rotating chair is almost the same as in the gun towers of the“ Falcon of the Millennium ”by laser batteries, and mysterious ones are sounded and then and then phone calls…
The translation is published in the new edition