The Snow Queen

The heroes of the novel “The Snow Queen” are the Barrett and Tyler brothers, the true inhabitants of the bohemian New York, lonely and vulnerable, are not ready to put up with losses, in the eternal search for the meaning of life and their calling. They remained children - like the heroes of Andersen"s fairy tales, they wander in an endless maze, trying to save themselves and loved ones, not to betray or freeze. A special role in the narrative of the city, similar simultaneously to the junk of an old man and an unknown planet, outwarded along and across - and still complete secrets. From the scene of New York, it quietly turns into an actor, and almost the main thing.
Michael Cunningham, the author of the famous clock and House on the edge of the world, again confirmed his glory to one of the best American prose writers, a brilliant heir modernists. Thinly feeling modernity, Canningham is trying to catch its elusive essence, weaving the past and the future, ordinary and mystical in a bright instant of insight