Bird city above the clouds

“For the first time in Russian, the latest Roman Anthony Dorra, the author of the book“ All the Light invisible to us ”, awarded the Pulser Prize, like this international bestseller,“ A bird"s city behind the clouds ”is included in the short list of the US National Book Prize. The novel is built like a nesting doll (or the “cloud atlas” of David Mitchell): the lives and fate of Anna and Omir, who are on different sides, are cunningly crossed here in the 1453 Constantinople besieged by the Turks, as well as an elderly enthusiast of ancient Greek literature of Zeno and the young ecoterrorist Seymour in modern Aydaho , as well as Constance, which flies to a distant exoplanet on the Argo ship under the control of the all -knowing Sivilla. Like Mari-Lore and Verner in the novel “All the Light invisible to us”, all five here are dreamers and outsiders who do not lose hope and in the middle of the most hopeless, seemingly chaos and despair: ““ Bird City behind the clouds ”shows that for us that for us Not everything is lost yet - and that the literature is an important instrument of salvation ”(Boston Globe) - for example, the mythical story of the ancient Greek Aiton, who dreams of turning into a bird and flying into a fairy -high city