We knew how to believe
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Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Award
The novel was translated into 11 languages.
The most anticipated book of the year according to Esquire, Forbes, The City, Labyrinth
In 1985, Yale Tishman, Director for the Development of the Art Gallery in Chicago, hunts for an extraordinary collection of Parisian paintings of the 1920s. He is all in thought about art, while the city covers the AIDS epidemic. Fiona, the sister of his deceased friend Nico, helps him to preserve the presence of the spirit.
Thirty years later, Fiona is looking for her daughter in Paris, who joined the sect. Only now she finally realizes how the events of the 1980s influenced her life and her relationship with her daughter. These interweaving stories show how to find good and hope in the middle of a disaster.
“Belief in something means to have faith, and McCai violently defends this contrary to nihilism and despair - faith in good in others, in the ability of time if you do not heal, then create something new” - National Book Review
“McCai created a touching story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, about young people who died from AIDS, and about those who survived. “We knew how to believe” - a valuable work of memory ” - Vies Than Nguyen, writer, laureate of the Pulitzer Prize
“One of the first novels that describes the AIDS epidemic ...” - The New York Times Book Review
The novel was translated into 11 languages.
The most anticipated book of the year according to Esquire, Forbes, The City, Labyrinth
In 1985, Yale Tishman, Director for the Development of the Art Gallery in Chicago, hunts for an extraordinary collection of Parisian paintings of the 1920s. He is all in thought about art, while the city covers the AIDS epidemic. Fiona, the sister of his deceased friend Nico, helps him to preserve the presence of the spirit.
Thirty years later, Fiona is looking for her daughter in Paris, who joined the sect. Only now she finally realizes how the events of the 1980s influenced her life and her relationship with her daughter. These interweaving stories show how to find good and hope in the middle of a disaster.
“Belief in something means to have faith, and McCai violently defends this contrary to nihilism and despair - faith in good in others, in the ability of time if you do not heal, then create something new” - National Book Review
“McCai created a touching story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, about young people who died from AIDS, and about those who survived. “We knew how to believe” - a valuable work of memory ” - Vies Than Nguyen, writer, laureate of the Pulitzer Prize
“One of the first novels that describes the AIDS epidemic ...” - The New York Times Book Review
Author:
Author:McCai Rebecca
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:18+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907056-95-4
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