Адам Бодор: The Sinistra Zone
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Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en
Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself «a simple wayfarer,» but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under the wing of the military zone s commander, Andrei is first assigned to guard the blueberries that supply a nearby bear reserve. He is surrounded by human wrecks, supernatural umbrellas, birds carrying plagues, albino twins.
The bears — and an affair with a married woman — occupy Andrei until his protector is replaced by a new female commander, «a slender creature, quiet, diaphanous, like a dragonfly,» and yet an iron-fisted harridan. As things grow ever more alarming, Andrei becomes a «corpse watchman,» standing guard over the dead to check for any signs of life, and then…