Лучшие книги Карен Расселл

Десять потрясающих историй, удивительным образом балансирующих на грани между реальностью и причудливой фантасмагорией. Монахини из приюта пытаются «очеловечить» девушек, воспитанных волками, но не все поддаются перевоспитанию. А те, кто поддался, приобретают и человеческие пороки... Ледовый дворец — единственное развлечение жителей захолустного городка. Там имеется вечернее шоу для взрослых «Метель», во время которого люди предаются самым разным, в том числе и очень опасным играм... Целая семья зарабатывает на жизнь при помощи борьбы с аллигаторами в тематическом парке... Пожилой инвалид влюбляется в волонтерку... Девочка на…

An awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls' nest.
In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses.
Clyde and Magreb - he a traditional capes-and-coffins vampire, she the more progressive variety - settle in an Italian lemon grove in the hope that its ripe fruit will keep their thirst for blood at bay.
Russell can take Antarctic tailgaters, an army of seagulls or simply a window and twist a tale that explodes on the page and lingers in the mind' The Times.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future.

A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers the Corps' reach has grown, with outposts in every major US city. Trish Edgewater, whose sister Dori was one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia, has spent the past seven years recruiting for the Corps. But Trish’s faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter when she is confronted by “Baby A,” the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y."

Sleep Donation explores a world facing the end of sleep as we know it, where “Night Worlds” offer black market remedies to the desperate and sleep deprived, and where even the act of making a gift is not as simple as it appears.

Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In"Bog Girl," a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant's safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void - yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

Swamplandia! is the story of Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida in search of a lost sister. Young Osceola has run off with a ghost-figure named Louis Thanksgiving, and only Ava knows where to look for them, dreading what she might find. Passages of this fine novel call to mind Conrad, Garcia Marquez and even – for those who have kids – Judy Blume. There’s not a forgettable character in the cast, from Ava’s flamboyant father, Chief Bigtree, who runs the family’s failing tourist trap, to the bedraggled and cryptic Bird Man, who guides Ava on…

In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer, the great beauty and champion alligator-wrestler Hilola Bigtree, has succumbed to cancer, and Ava, her resourceful but terrified 13-year-old daughter, is left in charge with her two siblings. But Ava's sister has embarked on a romantic relationship with a ghost, her brother has defected to a rival theme park, and her father is AWOL. And then a mysterious figure called Bird Man guides Ava into a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, promising he can save both her sister and the park...
Swamplandia! was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Десять потрясающих историй, удивительным образом балансирующих на грани между реальностью и причудливой фантасмагорией.
Монахини из приюта пытаются «очеловечить» девушек, воспитанных волками, но не все поддаются перевоспитанию. А те, кто поддался, приобретают и человеческие пороки….
Ледовый дворец – единственное развлечение жителей захолустного городка. Там имеется вечернее шоу для взрослых «Метель», во время которого люди предаются самым разным, в том числе и очень опасным играм…
Целая семья зарабатывает на жизнь при помощи борьбы с аллигаторами в тематическом парке…
Пожилой инвалид влюбляется в волонтерку…
Девочка на экскурсии застревает в гигантской доисторической раковине, в то время как начинается прилив…
Братья ищут призрак сестры, утонувшей в океане по их вине…
Десять мрачных сказок для взрослых. Десять историй об одиночестве и потерях, о жажде понимания и поиске свободы. Историй, переливающихся всеми оттенками магического реализма.