Steklyannyy Dvorets
Amitav Ghosh
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22 hours 20 minutes
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«Steklyannyy Dvorets» — eto istoriya, kotoraya zakhvatyvayet i ne otpuskayet. V ney voyna sosyedstvuyet s tishinoy detskoy komnaty, a sud'ba imperii perepletayetsya s lyogkimi prikosnoveniyami ruk. Amitav Gosh napisal roman, gde lichnoye i istoricheskoye slilis' tak tesno, chto ikh uzhe ne razlichit'. Vso nachinayetsya s gromovovo raskata — strannovo i pugayushchevo, prozvuchavshevo nad Mandalayem v noyabre 1885 goda. Eto ne prosto zvuk pushki. Eto predvestnik peremen. Radzhkumar — sirota, mal'chik bez proshlovo. Yemu vsego odinnadtsat', on rabotayet v kharchevne i kazhdyy den' lyubuyetsya sverkayushchim ogniyami dvortsom, merkayushchim cherez rov. On upryam i soobrazitelen i otchayanno khochet vyyrvat'sya v mir, gde yego zhizn' budet znachit' chto-to bol'sheye. Devochka Dolly, rovesnitsa Radzhkumara, zhivyot sovsem v drugom mire. Ona sluzhit pri koroleve Birmy i obitayet v Steklyannom dvortse, sredi zolota i shyolka. Dolly tikhaya i pokornaya, pochti nevidimaya, no yeyo glaza vidyat vso: predannost' i predatel'stva, bol' i padeniye imperii. Iz-za sverzheniya korolevskoy sem'i britanskimi voyskami zhizni Dolly i Radzhkumara peresekayutsya i menyayutsya navsegda. S etovo momenta nachinayetsya puteshestviye dlinoyu v stoletiye, iz kolonial'noy Birmy do nezavisimoy M'yanmy, ot poley s tikovymi derev'yami do universitetov, ot korolevskikh pokoyev do dzhungley, cherez lyubov' i voynu, utraty i novyye nadezhdy. Slushayte v masterskom ispolnenii Alekseya Bagdasarova semeynuyu sagu, okhvatyvayushchuyu tseluyu epokhu i ogromnyy region.