Издания и произведения

"Храм Луны" Пола Остера, знаменитого автора "Нью-йоркской трилогии" и "Книги иллюзий", - это оригинальный и впечатляющий рассказ о познании самих себя и окружающего мира. Здесь как никогда ярко проявилась самая важная черта творческой методики Остера - одухотворение повседневности: по выражению критика, "вроде бы герой рассказывает о мелочах, но между тем происходят трагедии, завязываются роковые узелки с далеко идущими последствиями, когда не определить, что же, в конечном счете, окажется судьбоносным".

'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.' So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies…

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well…