Swimming in a pond in the rain

From the Buker laureate of George Sonders, the author of the Lincoln in Bardo "and the Tenth December.

It is easy to reveal the secrets of literature - just turn the page.

Chekhov. Turgenev. Tolstoy. Gogol.

Seven stories of famous Russian writers - seven essays that George Saunders created on the basis of a course, which he has been reading at the University of Syracus for many years.

when you read these authors, they change you, and the world around it seems to begin to expound another, much more interesting, history - the story, in which a significant role can be played and where the reader is entrusted with responsibility, ”writes himself in the introduction Sonders.

After all, to study literature is to study life itself.

ode to every writer and reader. " - O, The Oprah Magazine

This book is especially magnificent in that this is not another "Hau-on" or a critical essay. This is a real immersion in history, Saunders felt the perfect balance between writing and readership. " - The guardian