Grace

For the first time in Russian— a novel by contemporary Irish classic Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for “The Song of the Prophet,” already being called “Irish ‘1984’” and “the new ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’” From one of the greatest contemporary writers (Marianne)—“an epic mural, a rogue novel, and a gripping coming-of-age story all at once” (La Vie). Meet fourteen-year-old Grace. One frozen morning, her mother drags her out onto the street, cuts her hair, orders her to dress in men’s clothes and set off on the road—otherwise, at dawn in Ireland, during the Great Famine, she won’t survive. This is how a hallucination-bright odyssey begins through an unbearable world—embodied in hypnotic prose that “flows like good Irish whiskey”… (RT Book Reviews) “A piercing literary work of lyrical… beauty, read like a natural blend of John Steinbeck’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’” (The Washington Post).