The Winners: A Novel

«Posle buri» – zaklyuchitel‘naya chast‘ trilogii o zhitelyakh dvukh sopernichayushchikh khokkeynykh gorodov, kotoroy predshestvuyut knigi «Medvezhiy ugol» i «My protiv vas». Proshlo dva goda posle sobytiy, o kotorykh vse stremyatsya zabyt‘, chtoby dvigat‘sya dal‘she. Maya Anderson i Ben‘i Ovich vozvrashchayutsya domoy i vossoyedinyayutsya s blizkimi druz‘yami. Oni chuvstvuyut v B‘ornstade atmosferu optimizma i tseleustremlennosti, voploshcheniyem kotoroy stal postroyennyy na beregu ozera vpechatlyayushchiy ledovyy dvorets. No problemy, vyzvannyye posledstviyami sil‘neyshey buri, vnov‘ razzhigayut staroye sopernichestvo mezhdu B‘ornstadom i sosednim Khedom, sopernichestvo, kotoroye nachinayetsya na ledovoy ploshchadke, no nikogda yeyu ne ogranichivayetsya. Narastayushchaya napryazhennost‘ perekhodit vo vzaimnoye zapugivaniye, a zatem i v nasiliye… Vseobshchaya khokkeynaya oderzhimost‘ vse bol‘she razdrazhayet chetyrnadtsatiletnego Matteo. Krome togo, te, kogo on schitayet vinovnymi v smerti sestry, – khokkeisty. Matteo polon reshimosti otomstit‘. U nego yest‘ pistolet. I plan deystviy, osushchestvleniye kotorogo privedet k tragedii. Eta pronzitel‘naya istoriya predlagayet nam peresmotret‘ svoi vzglyady na to, chto znachit pobedit‘ i chto znachit proigrat‘, chto znachit teryat‘ i chto znachit proshchat‘.