Let the Great World Spin

19 hrs. 20 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Colum McCann

Narrator Vyacheslav Zadvornykh

Description

Irish literature is famous for names, and Colum McCann with his epochal novel “Let the Great World Spin” has firmly taken a place not far from the top among a very representative lineup of Irish writers. McCann is a worthy continuation of the traditions of great Irish literature. The 1970s, New York, a time of rapid change—all things move, fly, rush. But for a moment the hustle and chaos of the metropolis freezes: a man walks across a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center. This incredible trick by a French tightrope walker becomes the center where the stories of the heroes run and converge: a street priest, prostitutes, mothers who lost sons in Vietnam, bohemians, a judge. McCann uses the past to understand the present. Stories from the era when the world we live in was taking shape allow us to make sense of today’s days—no less turbulent than the already distant 1970s. Colum McCann’s novel received the National Book Award, and The New York Times called the book “one of the strongest and deepest of recent years.” And in 2011, the novel won the Dublin Prize, the second most important literary award after the Nobel Prize.