This time I got a fairly big break, and our heroine today is to blame, namely, that I read her relatively recently, and I wanted everything to go well in my head, because, here, there is really something to think about. Oh yes, it is probably necessary to remind you who I am and what I actually do now. I am the guy who makes books reviews and puts them on your consideration. The guy who wants you to start reading is to unveil you!
Well, we meet ..
Miriam Petrosyand, in which.
No, no and not again! I know what you thought about. No, this is not a collection of jokes. No, this is not the granddaughter of Evgeny Petrosyan. No, she has nothing to do with this person at all. And yes, this is a woman, and I myself learned it only when I began to prepare for writing this article.
The most remarkable in the author is that she is not even a writer, but the artist worked, though not for long, on Soyuzmultfilm. And the book I have considered is her only printed offspring, and, it seems to me, it will remain such, for the book has a rather complicated fate, and she herself (author) said about this somewhere. You can read more about the vital and downs of this work in the wiki, and I will simply say that the original text that has no ending, lay for about 10 years in the cabinet of the table, it is generally not clear who and only miraculously fell into the hands of the publisher. As a result, the work was released in 2009. Well, okay, let’s go to the point.
I will say immediately and irrevocably: the book takes its atmosphere and bright heroes.
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What is the atmosphere here? It is difficult to say, but the closest mysticism, but this is not a “paranormal phenomenon” with ghosts and poltergeists, and not “supernatural” with two loud brothers. Here the mysticism is different. It is sharpened on a closed society in which the rules, customs and even laws were built by generations of children who replace each other and live on the territory closed from another world, and all this is saturated with superstitions and faith in something in something. Yes! Children, and not just children, but for the most part disabled children.
For clarity, I think it is worth describing the scene itself.
House
The whole plot develops inside one boarding house for children with disabilities, although there are quite healthy guys there. But these are not orphans, as one might think, no. Each of them has parents or close relatives who are simply tired of busy himself with sick children, and they decided to fuse them somewhere, and their choice fell on this place. But this house is unusual, both in itself and people inhabiting it. Just imagine that everyone has their own nickname there, and you choose it not you, but any other, and they call each other only by them. And what is most interesting, even the educators and the director have nicknames, and they are also called only nicknames and nothing else, and these adults accept this, because they have no longer left, because these are the rules of the house, and they are established long before their appearance here.
It is worth saying that educators live in general on a separate floor, because they are afraid of their wards, and none of them will ever remain at night on the second floor, where our heroes live, well, almost no one. The house itself stands on the outskirts of the city, on the outskirts, and is the only old building, and new high -rise buildings are still at a distance, as if afraid to approach this place. Inside it, all the walls of the corridors from the floor and to the ceiling are scribbled and painted. For them, walls are the same as for us newspapers and magazines. Moreover, new inscriptions are written on top of the old ones and some of them even climb onto the ceiling, but still no one dares to paint the drawings of a spider, because they are something special for this house. Also, those who are inside do not complain at all, and therefore the corridor windows, facing the surrounding houses are laid with bricks.
Oh yes, at the expense of generations: they are replaced here every 6 years, when a set in groups occurs. Children are gaining there at six years old, although it seems like you can get there and in other years, you just need to approach the age. They from the outside world abruptly fall into the house. Here they reign their laws, which they still have to recognize and feel on themselves, but the most important thing is that they have to find out the house. When they perform twelve, the senior group, in which everyone is already eighteen, goes into adulthood. And the younger ones become older, adopting their laws and habits even when they lived and idolized already departed. And everything is repeated again ..
I would also like to tell about the structure of the society of this house. All children are divided into groups. By the way, both girls live in this house simply in different buildings and practically do not contact each other, although, it seems, the administration does not prohibit them. Yes, even if I wanted to, I probably could not.
Duck here, groups. Each of them has its own leader in the literal sense of the word, for they become due to their strength, authority and other qualities necessary for people to follow you. And in this generation, each group has its own image of chtoli, at least so one of the heroes of the novel, as well as its unofficial name. The first group is pheasants: such bats, always walking in the same business clothing and generally trying in every possible way to observe the rules of the leadership, but at the same time, still remaining part of this house. The second is rats: fucking punks, always and everywhere listen to music and carry blades, sharpening, or something that can cut the throat with them without fail. The third is birds: botanists in the scientific sense of the word, but not simple, but always wearing mourning. Why? You will find out for yourself. Fourth: Logi is the most motley, but also having its own certain cult, in the form of a considered flock, but does not have any distinguishing features, well, what is his leader, the owner of the house. Fifth-for some reason is not mentioned in the book exactly in any way. And finally the sixth – dogs: differ in that iron collars wear on the neck.
And most importantly, various people with disabilities and physically healthy here on equal terms, for the emphasis goes on a person and on some moral qualities, and I would even say to a person’s philosophy, because everyone has their own there. But at the same time, the force also has a significant role, but not the one we are used to talking about. Vivid proof of my words is the owner of the house – blind. This is the nickname and its ailment, but only it is possible just the same (ailment) and allowed him to become who he is. His strength is that he probably could be akin to the house most of all, I would even say to become part of it, which gave him strength, about all the power of which many do not even suspect.
These children have nothing to lose except each other and at home, and they are terribly afraid to leave this place.
Many of their rules and laws are created on the basis of a certain fear of the house, which periodically throws supernatural quirks, but it is possible that they themselves created their God, simply believing in Him, and from this he was embodied in life.
With all this detachment from the rest of the world and fear of what lies behind the fence of the house, they are not completely isolated from appearance: they look at modern films and listen to music, travel to the camp in the summer, see their parents and can well escape from the house for some time, but only they always return.
Say something about heroes?
Here you have to read, because each of them is outstanding, each of them deserves attention and each of them has its own story, and if I start telling you it, it will be easier for me to retell the whole book. I will probably just list some of them. I already told the blind man; Sphinx is an armless, bald and looking twenty -five at his seventeen; Pompey – wears on the neck of dying bats; The lord is a stroller, but at the same time having outstanding beauty and incredibly deftly and quickly moving despite its non -working legs; Macedonian – almost always silent, always removes after everyone and generally always tries in every way to serve everyone; Red – the leader of the rats, always walks with glasses, without removing them, and if it takes off, then … and the jackal of tobacco is a stroller, but it seems like it pretending to them and carries so many layers of clothing that you can’t count it, and also almost never plugging. And this is only part of those whose fate will be to follow the reader.
But what to say in conclusion?
I could tell you about this book for a long time, because there are so many things in it! But I look at the volume and understand that enough. I hope I was able to convey the whole atmosphere that reigns in this place, because it is now possible to describe it in a nutshell, I am simply not able to, which is something incredible for me. This book is required to read more than once or twice. I am more than sure that in a year I will return to her to re -process her and get into this wonderful world again, in which there are so many memories left. No, this book is not saturated with a sense of pity for deprived health: it tells a completely different story and causes completely different emotions. In addition, reading this miracle, you often forget about the inferiority of the heroes, until the author himself reminds of this. I will only say that when you read it, you no longer observe the characters, but you live next to them. You are there, along with the heroes, in their own world, which is so unlike our. And the clock spent there is beautiful.
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