Lanark: A Life in Four Books

For the first time in Russian - one of the main British books of the 20th century, the debut novel, who wrote more than 30 years and the world of the new master first magnitude. "Lanarka" is at the same time the romance of upbringing and an adventurous chronicle, mystical phantasmagoria and a book about the first love, something like this could turn out from Joyce, Kafki and Edgar by, if they set three of them to write for Walt Disney Scenario "Pinocchio" - in Glasgow, Armed with a scotch whiskey drawer. Here, the laundry-student receives an order for the painting of the cathedral, people in the afterlime world are covered with crocodile skin, and government officials pass the exam on slow killing of hope.
Gray"s Alaser is Scot. This explains a lot