Меркьюри

"Merkʹi͡uri" udivitelʹno tochno peredaet ėmot͡sionalʹnui͡u dinamiku vnutri bolʹshoĭ semʹi, kazhdyĭ chlen kotoroĭ perezhivaet svoi͡u bolʹ, svoi͡u tragedii͡u, svoi͡u mechtu i svoi͡u poteri͡u. Ėto roman, okhvativshiĭ dva desi͡atka let i zapechatlevshiĭ zhiznʹ Dzhozefov, slovno v i͡antare, krasivo i po-nastoi͡ashchemu. Semnadt͡satiletneĭ Marli vsegda ne khvatalo oshchushchenii͡a doma: uzh slishkom mnogo oni s materʹi͡u pereezzhali s mesta na mesto. Okazavshisʹ v gorodke pod nazvaniem Merkʹi͡uri i v ocherednoĭ raz nachinai͡a s nachala, Marli udaetsi͡a zavesti znakomstvo s semʹeĭ Dzhozefov, gordykh osnovateleĭ krovelʹnoĭ firmy "Dzhozef i synovʹi͡a". Vskore, stav zhenoĭ odnogo iz synoveĭ i okazavshisʹ za bolʹshim semeĭnym stolom, Marli chuvstvuet neispytannui͡u prezhde prichastnostʹ. Odnako bytʹ zhenshchinoĭ v dome, polnom slozhnykh muzhchin, - slovno bytʹ materʹi͡u vzroslykh deteĭ. Sovsem skoro Marli pridetsi͡a vstatʹ vo glave ėtoĭ nekogda chuzhoĭ eĭ semʹi, zaboti͡asʹ ne tolʹko o novorozhdennom syne i muzhe, no i o svekre, deverʹi͡akh i krovelʹnom biznese. A ėtomu mozhet nauchitʹ tolʹko zhiznʹ, neumolimai͡a i ne vsegda schastlivai͡a.

Mercury surprisingly accurately conveys the emotional dynamics within a large family, each member of which is experiencing its own pain, its own tragedy, its own dream and its own loss. This is a novel that spanned two decades and captured the life of the Josephs, as if in amber, beautifully and truly. Seventeen-year-old Marley always missed feeling at home: she and her mother moved from place to place too much. Once in a town called Mercury, and once again starting from the beginning, Marley manages to make friends with the Joseph family, the proud founders of the roofing firm Joseph and Sons. Soon, becoming the wife of one of her sons and finding herself at a large family table, Marley feels a previously untested involvement. However, being a woman in a house full of difficult men is like being the mother of grown children. Very soon, Marley will have to take over this once-alien family, caring not only for her newborn son and husband, but also for her father-in-law, brothers-in-law, and the roofing business. And this can only be taught by life, which is relentless and not always happy.