The Song of the Sailor

Ken Kizi is “a cheerful prankster”, a herald of a new reality, and a psychedelic guru, the author of the epic novel “sometimes Great Blash” and one of the most iconic books of the 20th century “Over the Kukushkin’s nest”. His third full -scale novel had to wait almost thirty years - but “Ken Kiji"s voice is recognizable immediately, and time over it is not imperious” (San Jose Mercury News) So, welcome to Alaska, to the fishing town of Kuinak. Here they go for tuna and salmon, do not dare to drive away a herd of pigs, a herd of fucked after an earthquake after an earthquake, and in the former cattle -beam they arranged a kegelban. There is nowhere to run from Alaska - This is the end, the final, the last line of the dream of pioneers. But once a floating studio “Chernoburka” comes to Kuinak: the world famous director Gerhardt Stubins was about to make a Hollywood blockbuster based on the classic children"s novel “Shula and the Sea Lion” based on the Eskimos myths. Cuinakians are only happy-but the Order of Bled dogs, “consisting of a selected elite of fishermen, robbers, dockers, drove, cap-and-pillets, trade sailors, hockey fans, party-minded people, unimportant Jesus and chosen angels of hell”, suspects something uncommon ... “amazing , large -scale, with crazy plot zigzags and excellent work. Let us rejoice ”(Chicago Sun-Times Book Week)