Vremya starogo Boga

Novyy roman avtora, knigi kotorogo dvazhdy stanovilis' finalistami premii Booker, - eto tonchayshee kruzhevnoe polotno o lyubvi, pamyati, gore i davno pohoronennyh sekretah. Policeyskiy Tom Kettl pochti god nazad vyshel na pensiyu i obosnovalsya v s"emnoy kvartirke, raspolozhennoy v pristroyke viktorianskogo zamka, s vidom na Irlandskoe more. Dolgie mesyacy on ni s kem ne razgovarival, da pochti i ne videl nikogo, razve chto mel'kom - svoego ekscentrichnogo domovladel'ca i nervnuyu moloduyu mat', nedavno vselivshuyusya v sosednyuyu kvartiru. Zhizn' Toma ostalas' v proshlom, on zhivet, ne razlichaya real'nosti i vospominaniy - o lyubimoy zhene Dzhun, docheri Vinni i syne Dzho.
Oni prihodyat k nemu i v snah, i nayavu. Tom nichego ne zhdet, emu dostatochno glyadet' v okno na pikiruyushchuyu chayku, pit' chay i vspominat'... vspominat'. No odnazhdy na ego poroge ob"yavlyaetsya parochka byvshih kolleg, zhelayushchih rassprosit' o dele desyatiletney davnosti, tak i ostavshemsya neraskrytym, s chem Tom ne smog smirit'sya. I v nastoyashchee Toma vryvayutsya temnye zavihreniya ego proshlogo, kotoroe on postaralsya zabyt'.
Blestyashche napisannyy, ideal'no vystroennyy, zavorazhivayushchiy roman, v kotorom tayna kroetsya v kazhdom abzace, gde vse ne to, chem kazhetsya ponachalu. «Vremya starogo Boga» - o tom, chto my perezhili, v chem zhivem seychas i chto budet zhit' posle nas, o fenomene pamyati, kotoraya poroy pytaetsya podmenit' soboyu real'nost'.
V nazvanie svoey novoy knigi Sebast'yan Barri vlozhil srazu neskol'ko smyslov - tut i ochevidnoe obrashchenie k Vethomu Zavetu, i pryamoe ukazanie na irlandskoe katolichestvo, a religioznye nameki okutyvaet pelena raspadayushcheysya pamyati, poskol'ku angliyskoe vyrazhenie «vremya starogo boga» oznachaet «to, chto nahoditsya za predelami pamyati». I eto ideal'noe nazvanie dlya knigi o pamyati, meshayushchee real'noe i voobrazhaemoe.

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