Black Snow

For the first time in Russian — the existential pastoral of modern Irish classic Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for the novel “The Lament of the Prophet”, which is already being called the Irish “1984” and the new “The Handmaid's Tale”. “Black Snow” is a “brilliant, hypnotic book” (Philipp Meyer, author of the novel “Son”), next to which “a large part of modern prose noticeably pales” (National Public Radio). In the spring of 1945, Matthew Peebles runs into a burning barn to rescue the livestock trapped inside — and dies. The farm owner Barnabas Kane, devastated by the death of his friend, tries to restore the farm, but his wife Eskra is suffocating from insecurity about tomorrow, while their son Billy is burdened by a terrible secret…