The international book fair of intellectual literature is being held in Moscow for the 18th time. For five days, the Central House of Artists hosts meetings, discussions, and round tables. Full program You can see exhibitions, but the most important thing, of course, is the books. Those books that will be read and talked about all next year. Pravmir has selected seven books in different genres that are worth paying attention to.
1. Archimandrite Savva (Majuko). Orange Saints. Notes of an Orthodox Optimist. M.: Ripol classic, 2016.
Archimandrite Savva (Mazhuko), monk of Gomel St. Nicholas monastery, wrote a book about joy in Orthodoxy. “Among our saints, the majority are monks and bishops, but in fact, in the eyes of God, our land has given birth to so many saints that no monthly book can contain them. I think that among those who have the talent of a tireless traveler, a scientist in love with science, an entrepreneur who creates new jobs, a teacher who teaches children boxing or football, a professor who infects students with a passion for reading and thinking, an actor who consoles millions of people with his game, there are true saints,” he writes.
"Orange Saints. Notes of an Orthodox Optimist" – light book and joyful, not superficial in content. The author cannot be denied a sense of humor, but at the same time he also has a sense of proportion. Reasonings and everyday stories are in the new book “Pravmira”.
- Buy an electronic ticket - there may be queues, especially on weekends, quite comparable to the famous “queue for Serov”. It is better to print the ticket, although ticket inspectors may allow you to show a QR code on your smartphone.
- The second line awaits on the way to the wardrobe. There are often no numbers and you have to wait for almost half an hour. If possible, you can take your clothes with you.
- Buy books from publishers - many of them give noticeable discounts, in some places the prices are lower than in online stores. But at the stands of large book chains the price tag is the same as in regular stores.
- Some stands have begun to accept cards, and on the ground floor there is an ATM for those who have not calculated the amount of money.
- Don't forget a larger bag or backpack.
The non/fiction book fair starts in Moscow on November 28 (and it ends on Sunday, December 2). It has been rightfully called the main literary event of the year for many years. Any Moscow resident interested in high-quality prose or science fiction puts the fair on their calendar. Critics compete to create lists of books everyone should buy, and publishers and writers compete to see who can get on the most lists. There is even a grandiose list of lists, a kind of book chart.
Photo: portal Moscow 24/Lidiya Shironina
And we, in turn, offer you our list. For him, the books were chosen not according to importance, but simply as we wanted.
A book for those who want to buy a book that everyone might be talking about
David Foster Wallace. "Infinite Jest" M.: AST, 2018
A cult American novel, a retelling of the plot of which would require a review the size of a hefty brochure, and which, quite true to its name, took a very long time to reach the Russian reader. There is a high probability that this rather complex work will be the subject of heated discussion in coffee shops and social networks in the next couple of weeks or months.
A book for those who want to buy a book whose genre corresponds to the name of the fair
Michio Kaku. "The Future of Humanity: Colonizing Mars, Traveling to the Stars and Finding Immortality." M.: Alpina non-fiction, 2018
Despite the fact that the fair is called non/fiction (that is, non-fiction literature is meant), all genres have been represented at it for a long time. And yet here they traditionally love scientific pop. Michio Kaku, an American scientist and publicist, is doing well both scientifically and popularly: his book is a story about physics and astronomy, disguised as an essay about the future.
A book for those who love to read and suffer
Linor Goralik. "Everyone who can breathe breath." M.: AST, 2018
For some, Linor Goralik is the one who invented the web comic “Hare PC”, for others she is a marketing guru, for others she is a poetess, for others she is a novelist. In her new book, which can be very loosely described as a post-apocalyptic fantasy, the most important thing is the feeling of the characters’ pain, which the reader feels on the skin.
A book for those who like to read about the suffering of others
Richard Lloyd Parry. "Eaters of Darkness" Ripol classic, 2018
Publishing house Ripol classic
Documentary prose: 18 years ago in Tokyo, a young English woman who worked as a hostess in a club disappeared. The more we learn about the details of her case, the more terrible things are revealed to us.
A book for those who like to cry out: “Well, this can’t be happening!”
Paul Auster. "4321". M.: Eksmo, 2018
In this book from the Booker Prize shortlist, one hero is naturally “quadrupleted,” that is, the hero will have four parallel lives at once. So readers of the novel by American prose writer Paul Sturgeon will be surprised a lot.
A book for those who want to read something they have never read before
Eka Kurniawan. "Beauty is grief." M.: Phantom Press, 2018
How long have you been last time Have you read Indonesian prose? And here is a fresh and internationally recognized example of it. But it's not just about the exotic. This is truly brilliant prose on the verge of realism and devilry, which begins with the resurrection of a woman in the village who had been in the grave for 21 years, and then everything continues in the same spirit.
A book for those who truly love Philip Miltonovich Roth
Philip Roth. "Operation Shylock". M.: Knizhniki, 2018
Philip Roth is one of the main American novelists of the twentieth century, who has long waited for a well-deserved Nobel Prize in literature, but he never got it, and died this year. "Shylock" is being published in Russian for the first time; it is not quite a novel, but rather a story about how Roth observed the trial Nazi criminal Ivan Demjanjuk. But in fact this is a typical Philip Roth text, so it is recommended only for amateurs.
A book for those interested in the history of bygone days
John Prevas. "Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of the Roman Republic's Greatest Enemy." M.: Alpina non-fiction, 2018
A fascinating story about how Hannibal almost defeated Rome. But, as we know from the legendary meme, “the end is a little predictable.”
A book for those who just want to laugh a little
Gail Honeyman. "Eleanor Oliphant in in perfect order". M.: AST, 2018
The story of a girl who avoided people and became a master of sports in social anxiety disorder, but for whom at one point everything went wrong, and she had to make an exception for some representatives of the human race. An excellent book, including for those who find it difficult to socialize.
A book for those who believe that one day a holiday will come on their street
Tibor Fischer. "How to rule the world." M.: Eksmo, 2018
The novel by one of the main British satirists about the everyday life of television workers turns out to be a story about a loser who finally regained his dignity after a chain of incidents of varying degrees of randomness and comedy.
A book for those who like the writer to take out the soul, hang it on a hook, examine it carefully, and then put it back
Fredrik Backman. "Bear Corner" M.: Sinbad, 2018
The famous Swedish writer tells us a story that took place in a godforsaken Swedish town with rather specific customs, but it will probably be close to everyone.
A book for people who are wildly obsessed with cats
Herbie Brennan. "The Mysterious World of Cats" M.: Kolibri, 2018
240 pages of declarations of love to cats, tales about cats, stories about cats. There is even a translation from feline to human: “Any cat that approaches a long-established and established group is strongly advised to keep its tail straight up and its coat smooth, signaling: “I come in peace.”
A book for those who love sounds more than letters
Pavel Krusanov. "Clairhearing" M.: Fluid FreeFly, 2018
As you can guess from the title, the main character of the novel has perfect pitch. For him, his whole life is a grandiose symphony. “Clairhearing” is a book about how difficult it is to live with at least something ideal in an imperfect life.
A book for those who love magic tricks and the TV series "How I Met Your Mother"
Neil Patrick Harris. "Magical Losers" M.: Edited by Willie Winky, 2018
Neil Patrick Harris - Enough famous actor(played Barney in the mentioned series), but he is also a great magician, fakir and magician. His book is a mixture of teenage prose with an encyclopedia of a young magician. The second component dominates.
A book for those who like to read about conspiracies and then expose them
Dan Jones. "Templars: the birth and death of a great order." M.: Alpina non-fiction, 2018
The history of the Templars, if you remove the accompanying mysticism from it, is more than interesting, although rather gloomy, full of betrayals, atrocities, and blood flows like a river for all four hundred pages.
A book for those who can't decide
Richard Russo. Empire Falls. M.: Phantom Press, 2018
Novel that won the Pulitzer Prize. The hero of this book, the owner of a dying diner, can’t decide on anything, and we laugh at him. The educational effect is not guaranteed, but is possible.
A book for those chasing international bestsellers
Viet Thanh Nguyen. "Sympathetic." M.: Corpus, 2018
A novel that won a Pulitzer Prize and was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Don’t be embarrassed by the author’s Vietnamese name, his novel is completely American, although an emigrant, of course. The genre is difficult to define: from action to psychological drama, from spy saga to love prose.
A book for those who are trying to understand how the world works
Daniel Schonpflug. "The Time of the Comet. 1918: The World Makes a Breakthrough." M.: Ad Marginem Press, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018
A grandiose play with two dozen characters, where they explain to us how the First ended World War and all the prerequisites for the emergence of the Second were created.
A book for those who want to stop and think
Marina Akhmedova. "Rock, girl, water." M.: Editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2018
The famous journalist, who became famous, in particular, for reporting from Dagestan, continues to talk about how real life works there in the mountains, this time in the genre of fiction.
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What useful things to buy at the winter book fair? Advice from the chief editor of the portal GodLiterature.RF
Text: Mikhail Vizel
Collage: Year of Literature.RF
The chief editor of the portal GodLiterature.RF offers his list of possible purchases at the winter book fair.
I. Fiction
1. Victor Pelevin. iPhuck 10
M.: Eksmo, 2017
You've probably already heard about this book. And you probably heard that, unlike last year and the year before, this book by Viktor Pelevin was quite a success: under the guise of a satire on the business known as “modern art,” he again managed to say something important about us and about the time in which we live. And now is the time to verify this personally. And even discuss it with your voice assistant on your smartphone.
2. Sergey Kuznetsov. "Teacher Dymov"
A lengthy and leisurely narrative about three generations of teachers - grandfather, father and son Dymov, in different eras and under different circumstances, from Stalin's repressions to the white ribbon movement, trying to sow reasonable, good, eternal things - to the best of their strength, understanding... and the surrounding circumstances. Such as sudden love.
3. Andrey Gelasimov. "Rose of Wind"
M.: ID Gorodets, 2017
“Wherever the Russian flag is raised, it should not come down.” Given as an epigraph, this “purely concrete” statement of Nicholas I fully conveys the direction of the new novel famous writer both the screenwriter and his style. But its content is much richer. The book is dedicated to a little-known episode of the development of the Far East - the daring and virtually unauthorized (more precisely, based only on oral agreements with the Grand Duke) expedition of Captain-Lieutenant Nevelsky around the island of Sakhalin - with the goal, in fact, to prove that this is an island, and not a peninsula, as it was considered then. In case of failure, Nevelsky would face a tribunal. But the campaign was crowned complete success, Nevelskoy rose to the rank of admiral, and Russia stood with a “firm foot” near the distant sea.
4. Konstantin Dmitrienko. "The Tale of the Scarecrow, the Tiger Cap and Little Paris"
M.: Eksmo, 2017
Another unexpected book about Far East- this time by a Far Eastern author. Moreover: this book has already been published by Dmitrienko’s own independent (read: microscopic) publishing house in Vladivostok. But the Moscow publishing giant found tales about legendary gold miners, hitters, shamans and spirits, mixed in the author’s memories of not so distant times, interesting for a wider readership. I would like to hope that this will turn out to be the case.
5. Shamil Idiatullin. "City of Brezhnev"
M.: AST, 2017
The novel of growing up in the harsh scenery of Naberezhnye Chelny in the first half of the eighties, when the capital of KamAZ could also lay claim to the dubious fame of the capital of street teenage gangs, unexpectedly for many was included in the Short List of the “Big Book”. Apparently, the “last Soviet generation” has grown to the need for self-awareness and reflection.
6. Emma Kline. "Girls"
M.: Fantom-press, 2017, trans. from English Anastasia Zavozova
California's "summer of love" also became the "summer of violence." In the story about the sexual-religious sect in which the 14-year-old heroine of this book was involved, the reader can easily recognize similarities with the real-life sect of Charlie Manson. But the novel by the young Californian writer is interesting not only for this.
7. Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi. "Half of a Yellow Sun"
M.: Fantom-press, 2017, trans. from English Marina Izvekova
The 40-year-old writer, Nigerian by birth and American by language and place of residence, is a rising (and, perhaps, already rising) star of world literature. Her main one is this moment the novel is, one might say, “Walking through torment” à la Afrique. Who else but Russian readers can understand the vicissitudes of two twin sisters from a prosperous family who ended up under the steamroller of the civil war.
8. Elena Ferrante. "The Story of the Lost Child"
M.: Sinbad, 2017, trans. from Italian Olga Tkachenko
The final part of the monumental “Neapolitan Quartet” by a mysterious author who stubbornly hides her real name. The heroines, Lena and Lilu, former girlfriends from a poor Neapolitan quarter, return after many years to their native land - no longer as girls in trouble, but as wise ladies. To be sure: you can change a lot... but we all come from childhood.
9. Jonathan Safran Foer. "Here I am"
M.: Eksmo, 2017, trans. from English N. Mezina
After the success and subsequent stellar film adaptations of the novels Fully Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer was able to afford to take a break as a novelist for almost ten years. Which he dedicated to writing this novel about three generations of a New York Jewish family against the backdrop of an apocalyptic assumption - a strong earthquake in the Middle East, where there is already enough upheaval. It would seem - what do Russian readers care about the fears and anxieties of the most prosperous Americans with a specific background? But we don’t ask ourselves a similar question when reading about Tolstoy’s aristocrats. Foer is not yet Tolstoy. But we are no longer in the nineteenth century.
10. Fredrik Backman. “Grandmother told me to bow and tell her that she asks for forgiveness.”
M.: Sinbad, 2017, trans. from Swedish Ks. Kovalenko
The translator of this book is Ksenia Kovalenko - Chief Editor children's publishing house "White Crow". But this book is by no means a children's book, although it main character- seven-year-old Elsa, whose 77-year-old grandmother has just died. Dying, she left her granddaughter, a friend in not at all childish and certainly not grandma’s pastimes, a number of envelopes that she should give different people. And, as the reader expects, it turns out that extravagant old ladies are not always what they seem. A rare case in our time: Buckman wrote a novel about adults and relationships, but with the main character - a child, although not in his years (but in terms of the trials he endured) reasonable. Give or take - Oliver Twist or Little Dorrit. Dickens ordered them to bow.
II. Non-fiction
11. Lev Danilkin. "Pantocrator of solar motes"
M.: Young Guard, 2017
Exit detailed biography Lenin in the year of the centenary of the Russian revolution is quite predictable. The angle of view chosen by the obstinate author turned out to be unpredictable. His Lenin is a freak, an illegal alien, a stubborn fanatic, a cunning intriguer, an overexcited neurotic - in a word, anyone except the benevolent Ilyich with a kind squint, who is not familiar to all those “born in the USSR”. Formally being non-fiction, this book is the obvious favorite at the “Big Book” summing up on December 12. It's time to get ready.
V. Lenin. "Donkey Bridge". Compilation and foreword by Lev Danilkin
St. Petersburg: Limbus-press, 2017
To write his book, Danilkin read fifty volumes of Lenin's collected works. And at the request of the publisher from the “city - the cradle of the revolution”, he selected 500 pages of Lenin’s best - in its modern understanding. Modern publicists and especially philosophers, bitten by French poststructuralism, can learn from the intelligibility of Lenin's style and the clarity of his formulations. ABOUT modern politicians and there is nothing to say. It is easy to imagine what epithet Mr. Ulyanov-Lenin would use to label most of them.
12. Mikhail Zygar. "The Empire Must Die"
M.: Alpina non-fiction, 2017
Unlike the book by the former chief glossy columnist Danilkin, which only pretends to be a biography historical figure, a book by the former editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel, creator of the educational project “1917. Free History" is a classic, good non-fiction. But it’s amazing: when reading a sequential account of the events that led to the disaster of 1917, you constantly catch yourself feeling that their characters are not our great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers, but friends, colleagues and partners (or even opponents). Despite the desperately hysterical title, the book itself is emphatically dispassionate. Which is not surprising. The facts presented in it are stronger than any pathos.
13. Peter Aven. "The Time of Berezovsky"
M.: Corpus, 2017
The history of the losers is written by the winners. This cruel and immutable rule applies equally to Parthians and oligarchs. And there is no need to say that the creator of Alfa Bank, a native of the Soviet academic town, Pyotr Aven, and the creator of many things (and many others), a native of the Soviet research institute, Boris Berezovsky, had a more complex relationship than the Romans and Parthians. Those, too, like Kievan Rus and the Polovtsians, had a lot in common - which does not cancel the harsh rules of historical science. The difference is that, unlike the Parthian wars of antiquity, most of us can relate the “oligarchic wars” of the nineties to our own personal experience. And, reading this book, look, so to speak, behind the scenes of history. Although only from one side.
14. “It was the 90s.” T. 1. “How we survived.” T. 2. “The Age of Dashing Holiness”
Edited by A. Marinina and V. Guga. M.: Eksmo, " People's book", 2017
And this is the embodiment personal experience dozens of non-professional writers who sent their confessional memoirs for the next volume of the People's Book project. For some, the nineties turned out to be “holy”, for others - “dashing”, but the stunning success of last year’s festival in Moscow “Island of the 90s” clearly showed: we are separated from the 1990s not just by twenty - twenty-five years . Not just a new human generation has arrived - a new historical era has arrived.
15. Elizaveta Glinka. “Doctor Lisa Glinka: “I am always on the side of the weak””
M.: AST, Edited by Elena Shubina, 2017
One of those books about which you can say, without fear of offending the publishers: “it would be better not to exist.” After tragic death After the plane crash over the Black Sea, Elizaveta Glinka’s relatives collected flying notes in the LJ account doctor_liza, supplemented them with memories - and published them as a book. In addition to its human and memorial value, this book is also interesting as a bold publishing experiment: will the ephemeral “Live Journal” survive a full-fledged transfer to paper, into the structure of a traditional book?
16. Tim Skorenko. Invented in Russia. History of Russian inventive thought from Peter I to Nicholas II
M.: Alpina Books, 2017
The idea that Russian soil can give birth to its own Platos and quick-witted Newtons is, in general, far from new. But the Moscow author Skorenko (by the way, a finalist for the Lyceum Prize with a completely different, semi-fictional book about the conquest of Everest) not only picks up the proud words of Lomonosov, but also lowers the piet from the empyrean high calm to the ground: it is not enough to give birth to neutons - and not those at all and not where it is customary to think - it is also necessary to provide their talent with the opportunity to develop and realize themselves, and not wither on the vine and not get bogged down in impenetrable bureaucracy. But with this in Russia, things were different in different eras.
17. Philip Glass. Words without music
St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbach Publishing House, 2017, trans. from English S. Silakova
Autobiography of one of the most famous representatives minimalism, American composer Philip Glass. From which, in particular, it follows that he considers himself a real classic - the heir of Bach, Mozart, Schubert and other geniuses of counterpoint.
18. Julian Barnes. "Open your eyes"
M.: Azbuka-Atticus, 2017, trans. from English Daria Goryanina, Vladimir Babkov, A. Borisenko
Last year, Julian Barnes arrived at Non-Fiction as part of the British delegation, but with the status of a classic and with, perhaps not his best, but a burningly interesting book about Shostakovich for the Russian reader. This year Barnes “arrives” at the Moscow fair in the form of a book of essays about art. For those who follow his work, this is not surprising: Barnes’s novels and stories always have a very strong essayistic element. But put together, his reasoning about the eternal acquired completeness and some kind of universal completeness.
19. Pierre Bayard. "The Titanic will sink"
M.: Text, 2017, trans. from French E. Morozova
The French literary critic Bayard became famous for his paradoxical (and at the same time very useful) treatise “The Art of Talking about Books You Haven’t Read.” But this time Bayard undertakes to prove that it is better to read books after all. Because writers sometimes accurately predict events in the near and distant future. Like Morgan Robertson, who described the sinking of the Titanic 14 years before the disaster. Or, we will add, Pushkin, when describing Lensky’s duel, accurately anticipated key moment their own death: their opponents fired before reaching the barrier. If Pushkin could read Bayard's book (especially since he could read it in the original) - he could think about it and change his tactics on his fateful day.
20. Robert Sapolsky. “Notes of a primate. The extraordinary life of a scientist among baboons"
M.: Alpina non-fiction, trans. from English I. Maigurova, M. Desyatova
After observing a herd of baboons in a Kenyan reserve for eight years, an American scientist not only began to distinguish between their personalities (which is quite natural), but also gave them biblical names: Leah, Isaac, Solomon, etc. And this is not just a learned joke, but also confirmation: yes, baboon morals are not much different from those of the Old Testament. In the end, we are all primates that we should be considered among our own.
III. "Don't understand what"
It would be more correct to call this section “I don’t understand why”: books with which it is not clear what to do, but which it is impossible to pass by.
21. Ezra Pound. "Kantos"
M.: Nauka, 2017, trans. from English A. Bronnikova
Pound is a brilliant modernist poet looking far ahead and an extremely short-sighted layman who managed to see in Italian fascism something romantic for a long time remained an untranslatable poet - both because of his convictions (which raised doubts about his mental adequacy) and because of his extremely complicated poetics. His main work, Cantos, was published in Russian in separate parts. Now Russian readers can judge them and their author in whole. Of course, with a significant allowance for translation - supported by a scrupulous scientific apparatus.
22. Leon Trotsky. "Roundtrip"
M.: Tsiolkovsky, 2017
One of the most unexpected books brought back to life by the century of revolution is Trotsky’s own memoir about his escape from Siberian exile, published by the elite Moscow publishing house Rosehip in 1907. Now the reader can be attracted to it not only by the established biography of the author, but also by his energetic style, and most importantly - incredible, fantastic (in literally words) exoticism of the Turukhansk region. Sometimes it seems that you are reading “The Snowstorm” by Sorokin. But this is not a clever postmodern pastiche of magical realism. This is the harsh truth.
23. Marje Nurminen. “The world is on the map. Geographical maps in the history of world culture"
M.: Paulsen, 2017, trans. from Finnish N. Bratchikova, A. Ignatieva
A luxurious volume - the dream of a book romantic and a knight of library adventures: a collection of world maps from 600-1600 is very good quality. However, it is not just a collection, but also a completely learned monograph. And with all this, it is quite a fascinating read. The publishers rightly recall the words of the 16th-century Flemish cartographer and collector Abraham Ortel: “old printed geographic Maps“It’s a window into history.” These days, the relevance of this statement has only increased. One bad thing: very expensive. This is probably one of the most expensive books presented at this year's Non/Fiction.
24. Luigi Serafini, Daniella Trasati. "Golden Rabbit"
Kyiv: Laurus, 2017, trans. from Italian Elena Kostyukovich
Many years after the defiantly meaningless artifact Codex Seraphinianus - a huge tome written in a non-existent language, an Italian designer and artist released an incomparably more “human” treatise. True, it is about rabbits - but about rabbits in the history of mankind: from the abstract Chinese “moon hare” to the medieval rabbit as a symbol of fertility and further to the rabbit - the subject of the inspired works of the maestro of “haute cuisine”. All in all, rabbits are not only valuable fur, but also an amazing 300-page book full of beautiful illustrations and witty finds.
Inevitable, unexpected and children's books, without which a trip to a frosty book fair, according to the Year of Literature, would be incomplete (Part I)
Text: Mikhail Vizel/GodLiteratury.RF
On the eve of the opening of the Non/Fiction fair, all newspapers and news sites publish their list of recommendations: without forty, fifty-five or four times thirty books it is impossible to leave the fair. We look at the world, at the role modern literature in it and on the purchasing power of the citizens inhabiting it, more realistically. And we offer ours list of eighteen books. But we would gladly buy each of them ourselves - if we had it at home more space(not to mention purchasing power).
I. Russian books
Despite the English name of the fair, we are still primarily interested in contemporary domestic authors. With whom you can say hello and get an autograph.
1. Alexey Ivanov. “Tobol. Many invited"
Alexey Ivanov alternates in his work works that are cutting-edge and, for this reason alone, causing an ambiguous attitude - and epic historical paintings. "Tobol" is one of the latter. The glaring contradictions of Peter the Great's era, which broke the strong ice of tradition even in Siberia, are revealed by him clearly and visibly, like in a movie. However, this is a movie: filming of the series of the same name is about to begin. But the experience of film adaptations of Ivanov’s works shows that it is better to read the book first.
2. Andrey Filimonov. "Tadpole and the Saints"
M.: Ripol-classic, series “What to read?”
We wrote about this book for a long time - but its release was postponed. And finally, the story of a Siberian village, whose residents not only drink and goof off, but also easily communicate with pagan gods and fly through the sky on a glider, and the head of the village administration, who calls himself a “tadpole,” sleeps in prophetic dreams for six months, has reached the readers . We congratulate all interested parties on this.
3. Dmitry Novikov. "Holomyana Flame"
M.: AST, Edited by Elena Shubina.
Dmitry Novikov is a real Karelian gem. Not in the sense that he just appeared. And the fact that he sits leisurely in his Karelian soil and does not shine at literary parties. Already from the title of his first big book it is clear that he is a special and original writer. However, there is nothing unusual in the plot of the novel itself: an adult man goes on a hike around the edges of the White Sea, and at the same time - into my own childhood and into the history of my Karelian ancestors. And right before the reader’s eyes another White spot. It’s not just painted over, it’s filled with blood.
Without a number
Leonid Yuzefovich, “Winter Road”
M.: AST, Edited by Elena Shubina.
It’s somehow not very correct to write about a book presented at the last “Non/Fiction”. But it is also impossible to ignore the book, which, in our opinion, will definitely be among the top three winners of the “Big Book” in a couple of days, if it does not become a winner. If "premium process" is important to you, don't miss the opportunity to purchase it a little early.
II. Transferable
As Pavel Basinsky rightly notes, dividing literature into “domestic” and “foreign” is a schoolboy convention. Russian literature is part of the world. And period. But still there are nuances: for example, the personality of the translator, which leaves an imprint on the personality of the author, etc.
4. Julian Barnes. Per. from English E. Petrova. "The Noise of Time"
Great Britain is the guest of honor at this year's fair. And Julian Barnes, frankly speaking, is the most honorable of these honored guests, with all due respect to his colleagues, who were not afraid of the Russian frosts. Moreover, it was a very fortunate coincidence that he wrote a real “Russian novel”, which he will personally present at the fair. So it’s simply impossible to leave without a copy of a book by an English writer with a portrait of the great Russian composer on the cover. Although, let's be honest: getting Barnes' autograph will be problematic - all events with his participation are already sold out and overbooked. Because English literature (and not only literature) has long and firmly been the “guest of honor” in the hearts and minds of Russian readers.
5. Hanya Yanagihara. Per. from English A. Borisenko, A. Zavozova, V. Sonkina. "Little Life"
M.: AST, Corpus
Since you are gathered at Non/Fiction, it means that they have already told you a dozen times that this is the main translated book of the season. (At the same time, sometimes omitting the clarification “translated”). We won't argue with that: the book really shows how far American romance has come. And it deserves careful and leisurely reading. And if where to buy this seven-hundred-page volume, then, of course, at Non/Fiction. And don’t wait, the fair may end by the end.
6. Alessandro Baricco. Per. from Italian A. Mirolyubova. "Young Bride"
M., Azbuka-Atticus, Inostranka, 2016
And if 700 pages seem overwhelming to you, pay attention to one of the main modern European writers, Alessandro Baricco, whose main talent is to come up with fascinating stories literally out of nothing: from a skein of silk (“Silk”), from a broken gramophone record (“The Nine Hundred, or the Legend” about the pianist"). Here too, the writer takes on a banal theme, a bourgeois marriage of convenience: Italian cloth manufacturers are ready to intermarriage with rich Argentine cattle dealers. And he “twists” an extraordinary parable out of it. A girl comes from Argentina to her fiancé, and discovers that the groom has disappeared, and the whole family is not too worried about this, because in their house it is customary to live every day as if it were the only one. And the Young Bride is cordially invited to enter a world where dream flows into reality, a prim family nest into a luxurious brothel, and “she” into “I” and then back into “he.” Moreover, under all these twists, the plot does not lose clarity, and the story remains entertaining. A little novel by a great master!
7. Orhan Pamuk. Per. From Turkish by A. Avrutina. "Red-haired woman"
M.: Azbuka-Atticus, Inostranka.
But extremes can be avoided. New Nobel laureate ten years old and a newly minted laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize - not an unbearable brick and not jewel, but simply a very good modern novel, in which the past is inextricably linked with the present, the love line is with the spiritual growth of the boy, who becomes a man before our eyes, the mythological with the real. Even if you have passed over the fashion for Orhan Pamuk and his “Istanbul novels”, this novel is worth starting to get to know him. Moreover, in the spring the author promises to come to Russia to give the “Yasnaya Polyana lecture.”
III. Non-fiction
Buying non-fiction books at the Non/Fiction fair - what could be more natural! The abundance and diversity of “non-fictional literature”, which has long gone far from dry science-pop and pseudo-fictionalized biographies, is simply eye-opening. Let's try to put them together.
8. Martin Ford. Per. from English S. Chernina. "The robots are coming"
M.: Alpina Non-fiction
Intelligent miracle robots have been providing income and fame to science fiction writers and Hollywood filmmakers for a good half a century, but only very recently have they been able to be adapted for the practical needs of the rest of humanity. Which immediately gave rise to questions posed by these same science fiction writers ahead of time: do we trust our electronic assistants too much? Will there be a real Sarah Connor who will be able to stop the real Terminator? A professional programmer and computer hardware developer, Ford directly admits: yes, the world of people with the advent of even the first rudiments of artificial intelligence will never be the same. Everything will change - education, medicine, leisure and consumption. But whether this will make people or machines more comfortable still depends on the former.
9. Natalia Azarova, Kirill Korchagin, Dmitry Kuzmin. "Poetry. Textbook".
M.: OGI
Despite its academic appearance and length (almost 900 pages!), this book is almost scandalous. Firstly, the authors are convinced that poetry has no relation to literature, and therefore it must be considered separately from the course of literary studies; and secondly, this book is in no way a manual on “how to write poetry.” No one claims to make scientific discoveries by reading a physics textbook. But, as in the case of a physics textbook, having studied a poetry textbook, written consistently and comprehensively, you can get a clear idea - including examples from the classics to the latest contemporaries - about this truly mysterious subject. And don’t let yourself be fooled by fakes. The book came out in the spring and quickly sold out. The second edition has arrived for “Non/Fiction”. Which makes me happy - in every sense.
10. Dmitry Oparin, Anton Akimov,
M.: EKSMO
“Non/Fiction” is still not a KRYAKK, which attracts bookworms from all over Siberia, it is a purely Moscow fair. And this book is an example of “new” Moscow studies, based not only on digging in archives (although where would we be without them), but on live conversations with living people. Why? there are houses, if not the totality of people who inhabited them and are inhabiting them? The authors examine 25 old houses, from the Bulgakov House on Bolshaya Sadovaya, known to all Muscovites, and the Icebreaker on Granatny Lane, to the relatively little-known constructivist complex on the street. Lestev, and they tell not only when and under what circumstances they were built, what stucco molding and parquet were preserved in them, but also who lived in them. And under what circumstances did they stop living? These circumstances are often tragic. Because houses are historical monuments, even if not architectural monuments. That's what the book is about.
11. Scott McCloud. Per. from English V. Shevchenko. "Understanding Comics"
M.: White Apple
In fact, this colorful book, published by a small Moscow publishing house, is a real textbook. But it doesn't look like a textbook at all. This is just a witty and colorful comic. On the spreads of which it is clearly explained how the sequence of pictures built by the artist differs from just a series of pictures, how the text “works” in comics, what a time loop and a pyramid of meaning are. By the way, have you already noticed that the central character of this book, its narrator, depicted on the cover, is very similar to Harry Potter? But in the original language, Understanding Comics was published in 1992. And the first book about Harry Potter was published in 1997. Coincidence? So think about it.
The Non/Fiction fair of intellectual literature is one of the most exciting book events of the year. Just a couple of minutes ago the fair opened at the Central House of Artists. We at MIF always prepare a lot of surprises for Non/Fiction, and the main one among them is, of course, wow-new items, for adults and children.
We present long-awaited new items that you can see on nonfiction from November 30 to December 4. Be sure to come: more than 20 MYTH creators will be working at the stands. Let's meet and chat.
If you are a book fair lover, this is the place for you.
If you have never been to a book exhibition, this is the place for you.
If you don't have time to go to all the book events, go to one. NonFiction.
Rebecca's Little Theater
The world of the theater is created right before your eyes - stunning pages, each of which is cut out of paper and replete with the smallest details. On each of them you will see one fairy tale hero, who takes the stage here and now…. And the show begins!
Meet! For the first time on the stage of the Little Theater are characters created by the famous French artist Rebecca Dautremer: the lamb Seraphim and the little kangaroo Petira, Thumb and Baba Yaga, Cyrano and Elvis, Alice lost in Wonderland, and amazing princesses, forgotten and unknown.
Create a story from the very first scene, gradually adding characters and layering pages one by one.
Starry, starry night
The girl who lived before with his grandparents in the mountains, moves to the city, to his parents’ apartment. The city seems to her a cold and soulless place, mom and dad constantly quarrel, and classmates don’t allow her to go to school. But everything changes when a new boy moves into the neighboring house... An inspiring and poignant story from Jimmy Liao will not leave anyone indifferent.
Simple, but very layered, both children and adults will love it.
Golden rules
Bob Bowman is one of the most successful coaches in history Olympic Games. He is primarily known as the coach of Michael Phelps, the record holder for the most awards in the history of the game. Its swimmers have set 43 world records and more than 50 national records USA.
In his book, Bob shares 10 rules that will help you set high goals, find motivation and achieve heights - in any area of life, not just in sports.
Culture for everyone
There is a new generation of companies consciously developing their people, creating a unique culture for people's continued individual growth and excellent business results. This book shows you how to create such a culture in your company.
The key to success is to develop everyone. This is the only way to become an organization of conscious development.
Leader and tribe
Birds flock together, fish move in schools, and people live in tribes. A tribe is a small community of 20 to 150 people. It is formed naturally. Thanks to the tribes, people survived glacial period, built the first villages and cities.
Any organization is a conglomerate of such communities. Today they are called teams, but the essence remains the same: only great tribes, led by great leaders, are capable of great things. How to become such a leader and create a strong team? The answers are in the breakthrough book Leader and Tribe.
The effectiveness of tribes depends on their culture. Every time people engage in conversation, their words reveal signs of one or another level of development of tribal culture.
Book of the Lazy Guru
A fresh and inspiring illustrated guide to mindful self-development without the fuss or stress. This is a book about how to achieve MORE by doing LESS. It is a way of looking at the world differently than we are used to - constantly struggling and putting ourselves under stress. Through illustrations, exercises and activities, Lores Shorter will help you restore your own creativity, inspiration and relaxation.
This powerful book will help you regain your flow state - without years of meditation.
Economics
Must-read for any citizen: economic history in an accessible form. An illustrated history of economic thought from the Middle Ages to the present. Goodwin looked at how the modern economy is changing under the influence climate change, wars and limited resources. With subtle humor, he shows readers the big picture without losing sight of specific events.
An intelligent and at the same time enjoyable book, accessible to readers without an economic background.
Night Tale
This is not an ordinary book, but a real shadow theater! Wait until evening or close the curtains, open this extraordinary book, take a flashlight - and see a miracle. This is a night fairy tale about an amazing city. Here they make films and catch a crocodile, ride a bungee and take to the sky in a hot air balloon.
The houses in the city stretch in a long line, and each of them has its own heroes and its own history. Which? Try to tell it yourself!
Big creative challenge
The Big Painting Challenge is a handy guide to painting and drawing that complements the BBC TV series of the same name. The book contains practical information useful exercises And step by step lessons(for almost all types of materials) that will help you in creative expression.
Are you ready to meet your inner artist?
Van Gogh's Starry Night
With this book you will take a fascinating journey through history. visual arts. You will find out what a primitive hunter, an ancient Chinese sculptor, an ancient Roman artist, a Baghdad calligrapher, a Japanese engraver, and a Victorian photographer were thinking about when creating their masterpieces.
Behind every work of art there is a person with his own unique destiny, his hopes and disappointments, joys and sorrows.
About the font
The font accompanies us everywhere: on product packaging, signs, TV and smartphone screens. German designer Erik Spiekermann will teach you to understand the intricacies of typography and communicate more effectively using this integral element of our lives.
This book uses simple and familiar examples to show that typography is not an art for the elite, but a powerful tool available to everyone.
Where's Warhol?
If Andy Warhol traveled back in time, where would he go? "Where's Warhol?" supplies him with his own time machine, and what do we see... Join Andy on his art historical journey through the past. From Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel to Jean-Michel Basquiat painting the streets of New York, from the French Impressionists and the Bauhaus.
Andy celebrated 12 significant moments in art history and invites readers to find him in each of them.
Through the eyes of a physicist
By introducing listeners to the wonders of physics, Walter Lewin creates magic. What is the professor's secret? “I bring people into their own world,” he says, “into the world in which they live and which they know quite well, but which they do not look at through the eyes of a physicist ... at least not yet. If, for example, I talk about waves on water, I ask the listeners, when they return home, to conduct some experiments in their own bath; this way they can see with their own eyes how closely they are connected to this phenomenon.”
The MIT professor whose riveting lectures made him a Youtube star talks about the most interesting discoveries in physics.
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