No Country for Old Men

For the first time in Russian—a famous novel by Cormac McCarthy, a MacArthur Fellow (“for genius”) and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner (for the novel “The Road”), a modern American classic of the highest caliber, a master of complex emotional depths and unconventional syntax. This cruel parable in the shell of a modernized western was carefully brought to the big screen by the Coen brothers; the film was nominated in 2008 for eight Oscars and won four, in addition to collecting about a hundred various awards around the world.

A Vietnam veteran goes to the Texas mountains to hunt antelope and discovers the traces of a bandit showdown—dead bodies, a load of drugs, and a briefcase with two million dollars. Tempted, he takes the money—and soon has to flee, both from Mexican bandits and from a demonic killer relentlessly on his trail, with a local sheriff moving one step behind him…