We know that the American Anthony Dorr is an excellent prose writer from the novel All the Light We Cannot See (Azbuka, 2015). The debut collection of his stories — about strong-willed people and wild nature — amazed critics, and translated into Russian, justifies the wildest expectations.
Dorr writes about a distant and strange world. About the shellfish of the African coast, the forests of Montana, the swamps of Lapland and people as a great and insignificant part of nature. His characters fish, build ships, look at the horizon and run away from home on a summer night to go around, touch the whole world and live life to the fullest. «To taste the salty oceanic cycle of birth and death.» Remember that the world is huge and beautiful, — as if the author calls, stay in reality, even if you have not become either a malacologist or a paleontologist, get in touch with nature — this gives you the strength to be happy.
Translation from English by Elena Petrova. Azbuka-Attiukus, 320 p., 2015.