The summer of the night

“Summer of the Night” - from Dan Simmons, the famous author of “Terror” and “Drud”, “Fifth Heart” and “Dark Death Game”, and the famous epic “Hyperion” / “Endimion”. This is a book about the last summer of childhood. About the time when we disappeared into the forest and on the river, racing on bicycles, scared each other with horror storms about the coffin on wheels and a black hand. After all, a little more-and everyone will go his own way, and then he will remember this special time all our lives when we were recklessly happy and absolutely free, and unprecedented adventures were waiting for every angle. Simmons reproduces the atmosphere of the provincial town of Simmons with the same love and brightness with which Bradbury in the “wine from Dandelion” depicted his Grintown. And now you are ready to believe in evil, ancient as the gods of Egypt, and insidious, like the Borge family ...
The translation is published in the new edition, with an author"s preface for the anniversary publication