10 new exciting books that will help to be distracted from quarantine: adventure, spy detectives and perfect Stephen King

The choice of Galina Yuzefovich

Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich chose ten new products, with whom it will be interesting to spend time in quarantine. The list includes novels about family secrets, adventures in the northern seas, a diary of a medieval executioner, a new romance of Stephen King and much more.

Ian McDonald. The rebellious moon. M.: AST, translation by N. Oyoyan

The long -awaited third part of the fascinating fantastic trilogy about the life of the lunar colony at the end of the 21st century. The bloody confrontation of economic clans has called into question the very existence of the moon as a separate political education. Now, whether the eternal enemies will be able to be the treacherous Chinese Suni, who took up communication to the hands of communication, the energetic Gans of Asamoa, monopolists in the production of food, cruel Australians Mackenzi, Metallurgy Lords, mysterious Russian Vorontsovs, the owners of the lunar transport, and, of course, the main characters of the entire epic, dusty Brazilians from the clan Corta - to forget the old racks and combine efforts in the fight against earthly expansion, the fate of millions of “Lunars” depends. The bad news is that the “rebellious moon” is not an independent novel, but the final part of the trilogy, so it makes no sense to read it separately. But there is good news: if you have not read the first two parts, now it's time to catch up.

Kate Atkinson. Great sky. Translation by A. Gryzunova

The Englishwoman Kate Atkinson writes his exemplary detectives as they usually write serious prose, that is, without stinting on psychological subtleties, drawing up the heroes thoughtfully and lovingly and building a dense, tangible world around them. After an almost ten -year break, Atkinson returns to the reader with the new novel about the adventures of his beloved hero, a former police, and now private detective Jackson Brody. This time, a lonely, middle -aged and departed from Brody’s affairs, almost by chance saves a person who has fallen into a difficult position on a coastal cliff. From this point, an investigation of a whole ball of crimes, which is rooted in the distant past, starts for him. The book will appear on sale after March 23, but for now you can read (or re -read) the previous cycle novels - the benefit of them are four, one another is better.

Joel Harrington. Righteous executioner: life, death, honor and shame in the 16th century. M.: Alpina Non-Fikshn, 2020. Translation T. RAKOV

Scientific and popular books, which could be attached to the definition of “exciting” without the slightest stretch, are not so common, but the “righteous executioner” of historian Joel Harrington, undoubtedly, of their number. Having studied the genuine diary of the executioner named Mayister Franz Schmidt, who worked in Nuremberg in the middle of the 16th century, and supplementing him with other important documents of the era, Harrington invites the reader to plunge into the world of a person of this despicable and absolutely necessary profession. The story of one particular executioner, about his internal dramas, about successes, mistakes and attempts to link his craft with his own religious feeling, in the interpretation of Harrington becomes both the history of the Palace of the Palace in general, and the outline of justice and jurisprudence in the Middle Ages, and the cognitive study of everyday life, customs and public assuvences of that time.

Morten A. Strezness. Times of the sea, or as we caught a combined shark with a takushenka inflatable boat. M.: AST, Corpus, 2020. Translation by R. Kosynkin

If for the summer you have planned a trip to the fjords of Norway, and now it is at risk, then the book of Morten Strens is a good replacement of such a trip (well, or with a more optimistic view of the world, excellent preparation for it). In the center of the narrative is the journey of the author and his friend, an eccentric artist-northerner, Hugo Osuyurd in the Northern Seas in search of the largest and most dangerous shark of these places-a huge deep-sea “Greenlander”. However, dozens of paths scatter from this plot -forming highway, leading the reader to the past of Norwegian navigation, into the space of natural history, as well as even more exotic and exalted spaces of thought and spirit. MaTtative, cognitive, exciting, wise, and in some places very funny “times of the sea” is a rare book that equally addresses intellect and the reader's feelings.

Reese Bowen. On the Farley field. M.: Phantom Press, 2020. Translation by E. Suff

In a good way, an old-fashioned and charming espionage detective, combining a good intrigue with a popularly beloved, comfortable surroundings of an English suburban estate. In the yard there is 1941, London is exhausted by endless bombing, however, in the Farley Plais estate, relative calm reigns in the county of Kent. Everything changes when the young son of the huntsman discovers on a nearby field the mutilated corpse of a spy-sabotage, obviously holding the way to one of his local accomplices. For the investigation of the incident, the son of the local Vicar and the third daughter of the owner of the estate, childhood friends and employees of MI5 are taken. Tea drinking, cricket, class prejudices and a little risky adventure - in general, everything as we love.

Luis Alberto Urrea. House of fallen angels. M.: Fantom Press, 2020, translation by M. Aleksandrova

If your standard of comfortable reading is a crowded, emotional and full -blooded family novel, then the “House of Fallen Angels” of an American of Mexican origin Luis Alberto Urrea is exactly what you need. Three generations of a huge American-Mexican family gather under the same roof in order to celebrate the anniversary of the elder of the clan and at the same time spend his hundred-year-old mother to the next world. Jokes, tears, memories, family secrets, love, old scores and mutual forgiveness - plunged into the novel by Urrea, the reader seems to be in the heart of a noisy and bustling family celebration. Death walks very close by (the owner of the holiday not only lost his mother - he himself is inconspicuously ill, so the current bunch is the last in his life), but the more acute and reckless fun.

Natalia to Oshoyan. The bride of the wind. M.: AST, 2019

The novel of the Chisinau writer and translator Natalia Osoyan is an infrequent example of truly high-quality adventurous prose in the best traditions of Rafael Sabatini or, if you like, “Pirates of the Caribbean”. The action of the “bride of the wind” unfolds in the bizarre world of scattered islands, separated by dangerous sea abuts, and the only way to get from one island to another is to go into risky swimming on one of the animated ships under the control of an elegant and fearless corsar. A thoroughly designed setting, a well -twisted intrigue, a transparent verified style (a rarity in the field of genre prose), and for those who are invented by a separate world especially to their liking, two more volumes of continuation.

Paul Oster. Brooklyn nonsense. M.: Exmo, 2020. Translation S. Task

The author himself describes his compact, charming and quiet romance as a “book about survival”. The sixty -year -old Nathan survived the divorce and cancer of the lungs and now, in his own expression, is looking for a quiet place to die. He moves to Brooklyn, where he converges closely with his long -lost nephew Tom - the same closed and desperate quietly, and at the same time begins work on a book about human stupidity. However, when the third character appears in the core and silent friendship of two men-the nine-year-old dumb girl Lucy, left on their care of the unequal sister of Tom, something for both heroes is elusively changing, and new hope begins to disgust on the horizon.

Stephen King. Institute. M.: AST, 2020. Translation by E. Romanova, E. Dobrokhotova-Maikova

We already talked about the new novel by Stephen King in detail and continue to insist that this is the most exciting reading of the coming spring. The Institute will go on sale after March 23, and if you need a potent agent from everyday anxieties, then you can’t find anything better.

Robertson Davis. Rebel angels. What is in the bones. Lira Orpheus (Cornish trilogy). SPb.: ABC, 2020. Translation T. Borovikova

After last year’s long -awaited reprint of the “Deptord trilogy” of the Canadian classic of Robertson Davis, the publishers' hands reached his second masterpiece - “Cornish trilogy”. The confusing, multilayer and multi -component story, twisted around the will of the eccentric philanthropist and collector of Francis Kornish, is both a detective, a mystical drama, an exquisite philosopher, and an allegory in the spirit of Taro cards. Robertson Davis is one of the best storytellers of all times and peoples, and his “Cornish trilogy” amazes with its density and constructive impeccability: not a single extra detail, not a single random image of more than a thousand pages. In a word, perfection as it is.

Galina Yuzefovich