On October 9, 1991, the Literary Prize "Russian Booker" was established. We picked up five books that were winners of the award in different years, which can be read, not even being a literary review and the connoisseur trends of contemporary art.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, "Casus Kukotsky"
The book, which has already become legendary and taken as the basis of the series, tells about the gynecologist by Kukotsky, all of himself who dedicated to the struggle for the life of women - not only on the operating table, but also in a broad sense, since it is for his age to ban abortions.The novel reveals and reveals the positive aspects of Kukotsky - until the moment when he himself does not destroy all the best, which was in his life: family, love, trusting relationship with her daughter. The disintegration of his life and his family is going on increasing, and we understand at some point that by many good deeds that Kukotsky had to commit to stay really a good man, he passed when the inattention was in the dark.
The novel consists of four parts, and one of them completely draws the souls of Elena, the wife of the main character, in the space between life and death. In addition, the line of Kukobsky has a mystical element. This makes a book a little on an amateur, but many of those who missed part with the vision of Elena and read the rest, the novel find exciting.
Ruben Galje, "White on Black"
The novel of the Gallago, telling about the unique, for most readers by the unpredictive experience of the author, would be interesting for one content. But he is also accompanied by the undoubted literary talent, which makes it not easy to empathize the main character - and together with him thousands of children hidden from our eyes - and literally dive into the book with a head, forgetting about their own reality.
No verbal frills. No familiar to each dramatic gesture. The novel tells about the childhood of the Galla, held in the orphanage for the disabled, where the powerlessness and disabilities are ordinary, and the authorities are indifferent and is not limited to in fact. "White on black" is one of those books that make a look at the world, for people and on their lives with a radical new angle.
Mikhail Elizarov, "Librarian"
If you liked Pelevin Middle, so to speak, your period, then from the "librarian" you will be delighted. Even if you remove all possible subtexts, fantastic madness on the pages of the novel captures the spirit.The story is difficult to call the classic plot. Once upon a time, in Soviet times, the writer lived, crumpled a book for a book about the battle for the harvest and the working conscience of the factory. It is noteworthy only when one: those of them that are printed during his life, being read by one spirit, without a break, from the crust to peel, they give their readers supersyl. For the possession of each of them there are bloody battles between the armies of those who are most of all Aloe on the most dull of your neighbors in the entrance.
Elena Chizhova, "Women's Time"
The USSR, the twentieth century is the era of wars and accomplishments, great buildings and great political scandals. And also - an endless struggle of millions of women, generation by generation, for life, a huge work, constantly remaining invisible, work, thanks to which the cosmonauts and scientists grew on potatoes and cutlets, went to clean clothing and without more future doctors and actors, permanent employment front With endless battles, the same, without which victory is impossible in any other front.
There are no chizova all these complex phrases. There are women themselves, generations of our mothers and grandmothers and their big troubles, too small for those who are not used to thinking where the clean shirts are taken from, tasty cutlets and healthy smart children.
Elena Kolyadsky, "Flower Cross"
According to the first rows of the book, it can be seen as the writer is trying to hook the reader, throwing funny sounding antiques of intense words, savingly describing the defects and sins of a sexual nature at the very beginning of the book. Do not judge at the beginning about the whole book. Endlessly, the soblot is lost, leaves, dissolves, leaving the story of a young woman who believed that she was told. In the fact that the nelzch lie. In the fact that the flesh of sinful. In what needs to be believed. As the adoption of rules from the owners of life, leadership destroys the fate of the most overwear world of this - women, second-sex people, slave their husbands. How do they create miracles - and how these miracles are assigned or rejected by others.
Despite the obvious anachronism, it seems to be right from the romantics of the nineteenth century Gypsy and despite the frank tracking of the reader with obscene words, the novel is really good.
I read for you: Lilith Mazikina
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