Ptenchik

Pronzitel‘nyy psihologicheskiy triller, pokorivshiy mirovyh knizhnyh obozrevateley. Deystvie razvorachivaetsya v 1980-e v tihom gorodke Novoy Zelandii. Obychnaya zhizn‘ dvenadcatiletney Dzhastiny perevorachivaetsya s nog na golovu, kogda v ee klass prihodit novaya uchitel‘nica — molodaya, krasivaya i neveroyatno obayatel‘naya miss Prays. Vse odnoklassnicy Dzhastiny bez uma ot novoy prepodavatel‘nicy i starayutsya izo vsekh sil, chtoby popast‘ v zavetnyy spisok ee lyubimyh uchenic, stat‘ ee «ptenchikom». Vskore nachinayut tvorit‘sya strannye dela — propadayut lichnye veshchi. Atmosfera v klasse postepenno nakalyaetsya, vse podozrevayut drug druga, doverie taet na glazah. Shepoty za spinoy, strannye sovpadeniya i napryazhennye vzglyady – vse skladyvaetsya v trevozhnuyu kartinu, kotoruyu Dzhastina ne mozhet ob"yasnit‘. Ey prihoditsya nachat‘ sobstvennoe rassledovanie... «Ptenchik» — pronzitel‘nyy triller, kotoryy issleduet vazhneyshie temy o hrupkosti detskogo doveriya, kovarnyh manipulyaciyah i razrushitel‘noy sile viny, despotizme vzroslyh i uyazvimosti detey. Pravda zdes‘ tshchatel‘no sokryta, i cena za nee nepomerno vysoka. Kniga goda po versii The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Slate, CrimeReads, Good Housekeeping, Amazon Book Review. Vybor redakcii New York Times. Audioversiyu romana virtuozno ispolnila Ol‘ga Pletneva, aktrisa ozvuchivaniya, teatra i kino. Golos geroini Umy Turman v «Ubit‘ Billa» i Samanty Dzhons v «Sekse v bol‘shom gorode».