One can only hope that such an eminent collection will lead to a broader recognition of this extraordinary writer, long deserving a star status» (San Francisco Book Review). For the first time in Russian— the complete collection of stories and novellas by contemporary classic Jonathan Carroll, who was considered his teacher by Neil Gaiman (“American Gods”) and Audrey Niffenegger (“The Time Traveler’s Wife”). With the childlike astonishment of a surrealist artist, he paints landscapes of our secret dreams and explores the innermost depths of the human heart. Under Carroll’s pen, the everyday turns into the marvelous: dogs find a voice, and people grow wings.
Contents:
Jonathan Carroll Married to the Cloud
Mister Fiddlehead
Oh-wow City
The Second Snow
Autumn Collection
The Best Man Friend
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Bitterness of Small Details
Waiting for the Swing
The Jane Fonda Cinema
Quarter to You
My Zundel
Learning to Leave
The Panicked Hand
A Bear to the Mouth
After the Release
Tired Angel
Dead Love You
Florian
The Life of My Crime
A Wheel in the Desert, Swings in the Moonlight
Restlessness in Pants
Black Cocktail
Face to Face
Boiled Turnip
Theft of Gravity
The Great Wall of Stenni
The Stolen Church
On One’s Own Head
A Sheep in a Wolf’s Skin
The Language of Heavenly Spheres
The Heidelberg Cylinder
Elizabeth Crap
Home in the Rain
Vedran
Water Cannot Be Waved
At Full Speed
No Declaration
And the Past Will Begin
Married to the Cloud