Ah, Vil‘yam!

Roman «Ah, Vil‘yam!» — finalist Bukerovskoy premii i luchshaya kniga goda po versii The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Vulture, She Reads. Uspeshnaya pisatel‘nica Lyusi davno v razvode s Vil‘yamom, s kotorym prozhila v brake mnogo let. Vnezapno sud‘ba snova svodit ih vmeste. Byvshiy suprug priglashaet geroinyu otpravit‘sya s nim v Men na poiski ego sestry, o sushchestvovanii kotoroy on uznal sovsem nedavno. Nesmotrya na dolgie gody braka i ogromnyy pisatel‘skiy opyt Vil‘yam ostaetsya dlya Lyusi zagadkoy. On slovno kniga, kotoruyu ona ne sumela prochitat‘. Vozmozhno, imenno eto pobuzhdaet ee prinyat‘ priglashenie. V puteshestvii byvshie suprugi vspominayut i obsuzhdayut svoi pervye gody vmeste, rozhdenie docherey, tyazhelyy razvod i novuyu zhizn‘ porozn‘. Razmyshlyayut nad prichinami rasstavaniya i nad temi silami, kotorye do sih por krepko svyazyvayut ih nesmotrya ni na chto. «Ya by vse otdala, ves‘ svoy pisatel‘skiy uspekh, ya otdala by vse — i glazom ne morgnuv, ya by vse otdala — v obmen na krepkuyu sem‘yu, gde deti znayut, chto goryacho lyubimy, a roditeli ne razoshlis‘ i tozhe lyubyat drug druga». Elizabet Straut, laureat Pulitcerovskoy premii za kul‘tovyy roman «Oliviya Kitteridzh», priotkryvaet te tayny semeynoy zhizni, kotorye blizkie lyudi hranyat drug ot druga, a inogda dazhe ot samih sebya. Slushayte audioversiyu etoy zamechatel‘noy, umnoy i tonkoy istorii so skeletami v shkafah, fleshbekami i yumorom v izumitel‘nom ispolnenii Natal‘i Kaznacheevoy.