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Автор: Ruta, Domenica
Название: Last Day
ISBN: 9780525510833
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Научно-фантастическая художественная литература

ISBN-10: 0525510834
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 06.10.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 201 x 130 x 20
Основная тема: Fiction - General
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a darkly glittering novel (The New York Times) that brings to mind Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles.

A beautifully written, thought-provoking book about life at the end.--Refinery29

In Domenica Rutas profoundly original novel, the end of the world comes once a year. Every May 28, humanity gathers to anticipate the planets demise--and to celebrate as if the day is truly its last.

On this holiday, three intersecting sets of characters embark on a possibly last-chance quest for redemption. In Boston, bookish wunderkind Sarah is looking for love and maybe a cosmic reversal from the much older Kurt, a tattoo artist she met at last years Last Day BBQ--but hes still trying to make amends to the family he destroyed long ago. Dysfunctional Karen keeps getting into trouble, especially when the voices shes been hearing coax her to abandon everything to search for her long-lost adoptive brother; her friend Rosette has left the Jehovahs Witnesses to follow a new pastor at the Last Kingdom on Earth, where she brings Karen on this fateful day. Meanwhile, above them all, three astronauts on the International Space Station, Bear, an American; Russian Svec; and billionaire Japanese space tourist Yui, contemplate their lives as well as their precious Earth from afar.

With sparkling wit, verbal ingenuity, and wild imagination, Ruta has created an alternate world in which an ancient holiday brings into stark reflection our deepest dreams, desires, hopes, and fears. In this tour-de-force debut novel she has written a dazzling, haunting love letter to humanity and to our planet.

Praise for Last Day

In Rutas fiction debut, each May 28 people around the world gather to celebrate what could be the end of the world. The author chooses seven quite different characters, tied together in various ways (romantically, for one pair; orbiting Earth on a space station for three others). Her focus on individual needs and choices as disaster potentially looms gives her story emotional heft.--The Washington Post

Domenica Rutas empathy is broad and deep, her prose fine-grained, her humor sharp but tender. Last Day is a life-affirming antidote to these pre-apocalyptic times.--Teddy Wayne, author of Loner

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