Голландский дом

Novyĭ roman amerikanskoĭ pisatelʹnit͡sy Ėnn Pėtchett napominaet skazku bratʹev Grimm, razrosshui͡usi͡a do masshtabov semeĭnogo ėposa. Istorii͡a glavnykh geroev, Dėnni Konroi͡a i ego sestry Mėĭv, okhvatyvaet vsi͡u vtorui͡u polovinu KhKh veka, a ikh sudʹby okazyvai͡utsi͡a rokovym obrazom perepleteny s Gollandskim domom - osobni͡akom na vostoke Pensilʹvanii, kogda-to prinadlezhavshim razorivsheĭsi͡a dinastii niderlandskikh magnatov Vankhubeĭkov. Sam po sebe Gollandskiĭ dom ne naselën prizrakami, no kazhdyĭ, kto perestupaet ego porog, v kakom-to smysle stanovitsi͡a prizrakom doma - kuda by on potom ni otpravilsi͡a, gde by vposledstvii ni zhil, povsi͡udu nosit s soboĭ ėtot obraz. U Dėnni i Mėĭv tolʹko ėto i estʹ: bezvremenno ushedshiĭ iz zhizni otet͡s, davnym-davno prevrativshai͡asi͡a v vospominanie matʹ, budto by vyshedshai͡a iz nochnogo koshmara machekha i zloveshchiĭ familʹnyĭ osobni͡ak. A takzhe vzroslai͡a zhiznʹ, kotorai͡a vse nikak ne nachnëtsi͡a: prokli͡atie detstva, pechatʹ sirotstva, nevozmozhnostʹ razorvatʹ odnazhdy sformirovavshiesi͡a uzy. "Gollandskiĭ dom" - istorii͡a o pobede li͡ubvi nad zlom. Pobede, zameshennoĭ na poteri͡akh i vo mnogom neochevidnoĭ, potomu chto v konechnom schëte chitateli͡u predstoit razobratʹsi͡a samomu, na chʹeĭ on storone i byl li zdesʹ zlodeĭ. I esli byl - to kto?

The new novel by American writer Ann Patchett resembles a fairy tale by the brothers Grimm, which has grown to the scale of a family epic. The story of the main characters, Danny Conroy and his sister Maeve, covers the entire second half of the twentieth century, and their destinies are fatally intertwined with a Dutch house - a mansion in eastern Pennsylvania, once owned by the bankrupt dynasty of Dutch magnates Vanhubeyks. The Dutch house itself is not inhabited by ghosts, but everyone who crosses its threshold, in a sense, becomes a ghost of the house — wherever he later goes, wherever he subsequently lives, carries this image with him everywhere. Danny and Maeve have only this: a father who died prematurely, a mother who turned into a memory a long time ago, a stepmother who seemed to come out of a nightmare and a sinister family mansion. And also adult life, which still does not begin: the curse of childhood, the seal of orphanhood, the inability to break once formed bonds. "Dutch House— is a story about the victory of love over evil. Victory, mixed up in losses and in many ways not obvious, because ultimately the reader will have to figure out for himself whose side he is on and whether there was a villain here. And if there was, then who?