Beyond That, The Sea

Voskhititel'nyy i napolnennyy lyubov'yu roman o poteryah i obreteniyah. Kogda v 1940-m na London nachinayut padat' nemeckie bomby, Milli i Redzhinal'd Tompson reshayutsya na neprostoy shag – otpravit' odinnadcatiletnyuyu doch' Beatris v evakuaciyu za okean. Zdes', v bezopasnoy Amerike, ey predstoit zhit' v chuzhoy sem'e, poka ne zakonchitsya voyna. Ispugannaya, obozlennaya na roditeley, odinokaya i poteryannaya, Bea pribyvaet v stranu, kotoraya tak otlichaetsya ot mrachnogo voennogo Londona. Mister i missis Dzhi, a takzhe ih synov'ya Uil'yam i Dzheral'd radushno prinimayut anglichanku, i vskore ona stanovitsya po-nastoyashchemu svoey v etom novom, uyutnom mire, chast'yu schastlivoy sem'i. Sumrachnyy London, vechno ustalye roditeli nachinayut kazat'sya Bea kakim-to zabytym snom. Kogda posle okonchaniya voyny devushka vozvrashchaetsya v Angliyu, pamyat' o ee amerikanskoy sem'e navsegda v serdce Bea, i imenno eti vospominaniya napravlyayut ee po zhizni. V etom romane, kak i v serdce Bea, vsego ponemnogu – dve takie raznye, no takie rodnye sem'i, perezhivshie Vtoruyu mirovuyu voynu po raznye storony Atlanticheskogo okeana, solnce i tuman, ostroe schast'e i tomitel'naya bol', proshchenie i ponimanie, poteri i lyubov'. Debyutnyy roman Lory Spens-Esh poluchil vysokuyu ocenku kritiki i kolleg po cekhu, v tom chisle ot Meg Volitcer, Ann Napolitano, Kler Messud i drugih avtorov. Kniga byla vybran v kachestve GMA Buzz Pick, Indie Next Pick na aprel' 2023 g. i poluchila zvezdnuyu recenziyu ot Publishers Weekly. Roman «A dal'she — more» voshel v top-list Goodreads 2023 goda.