Базар-вокзал

Grust i radost, bezieshodnost i nadejdie chereduutsia v romanah, povestiah i rasskazah Mashi Traub, kotoraia blestiashe debutirovala v 2007 godu proniknovenno-iskrennim romanom «Sobiraisia, mie uezjaem». Posle etogo bielo eshe mnogo knig, gomericheski smeshnieh i shemiashe pechalnieh. Po nekotoriem iz nih — «Dnevniku mamie pervoklassnika» i «Domiku na uge» — sniatie hudojestvenniee filmie. V novoi knige «Bazar-vokzal» Masha Traub berejno sobiraet oskolki vospominanii cherez aromatie i vkusie evropeiskogo rienka i pielnogo «bazara-vokzala» osetinskogo sela. Eto nostalgicheskaia, teplaia proza o tom, kak eda, zapahi i sluchainiee vstrechi stanoviatsia receptami chelovecheskogo schastia. «Eta kniga pisalas tak legko, budto ia priviechno varila sup na obed. "Bazar", kak on nazievalsia v moem selskom detstve, ili "rienok", kak nazievali ego v gorodah, — moe lubimoe mesto i moia lubimaia tema. Zapahi, vkusie, razgovorie, sluchainiee znakomstva — celiee sudbie i polnometrajniee sujetie pronosiatsia pered glazami za to vremia, poka tie viebiraesh miaso ili pomidorie. Eto mesto s osobiemi ritualami, pravilami povedeniia, svoim osobiem iaziekom. Sluchainaia pokupka mojet obernutsia drujboi na mnogo let ili prosto podniat nastroenie na celiei den. A vokzal, tot, eshe iz moego detstva, primiekavshii k rienku, — eto samiee tepliee vospominaniia, ot kotorieh ia ne mogu i ne hochu izbavliatsia. Takoi vot "bazar-vokzal"».

Sadness and joy, hopelessness and hope alternate in the novels, novellas and short stories of Masha Traub, who brilliantly debuted in 2007 with the heartfelt novel "Pack up, we're Leaving." After that, there were many more books, homerically funny and painfully sad. Feature films have been made based on some of them — "Diary of a First—Grader's Mother" and "A House in the South". In the new book "Bazaar Station" Masha Traub carefully collects fragments of memories through the aromas and tastes of the European market and the dusty "bazaar station" of the Ossetian village. It's a nostalgic, warm prose about how food, smells, and chance encounters become recipes for human happiness. "This book was written so easily, as if I habitually cooked soup for lunch. The bazaar, as it was called in my rural childhood, or the market, as it was called in the cities, is my favorite place and my favorite topic. Smells, tastes, conversations, casual acquaintances — whole destinies and full-length plots flash before your eyes while you choose meat or tomatoes. It's a place with special rituals, rules of conduct, and its own special language. A casual purchase can turn into a friendship for many years or just cheer you up for the whole day. And the train station, the one from my childhood, adjacent to the market, is the warmest memories that I cannot and do not want to get rid of. Such is the "bazaar-railway station".