Here I am

The new novel by Foer has been waiting for more than ten years. "Here I am" is a large -scale epic narrative, a book that clearly claims to be a great American novel. The Russian reader will definitely remember the well -known quote from Anna Karenina - "each family is unhappy in its own way." For the heroes of the novel "Here I am, Jacob and Julia, who lived in marriage and gave birth to three sons, is perceived not just as misfortune - as the end of the world. Private tragedy is aggravated by global tragedy - a strong earthquake in the Middle East leads to an increase in military conflict. The connection of times and the connection between people are torn - loneliness is felt with a hitherto unheated acute, everyone turns out to be alone with their fears.
From now on, the heroes will have to look at their lives in a new way and see the gap - between the life of the desired and the life of the resident