Мирэ. Дальневосточный роман

Natalʹi͡a Ilishkina - avtor "stepnoĭ sagi" o donskikh kalmykakh "Ulan Dalaĭ". Finalist premiĭ "I͡Asnai͡a Poli͡ana" i "Bolʹshai͡a kniga".Geroini͡a novogo romana Mirė (po-koreĭski "budushchee") pokloni͡aetsi͡a li͡ubym magicheskim silam: dukham predkov i mestnosti, Iisusu v ego katolicheskom i pravoslavnom izvodakh, Bogomateri Marii, Antikhristu Leninu, kollektivnomu Politbi͡uro i genialʹnomu vozhdi͡u tovarishchu Stalinu. Ona nikak ne mozhet vzi͡atʹ v tolk, pochemu nuzhno vybiratʹ odnogo i otkazyvatʹsi͡a ot vsekh prochikh nebesnykh pokroviteleĭ. Mirė gotova idti vsled za muzhem-revoli͡ut͡sionerom, predsedatelem koreĭskoĭ sekt͡sii soi͡uza bezbozhnikov, i otrechʹsi͡a ot vsego, chto obʺi͡avli͡aetsi͡a vne zakona, lishʹ by tolʹko ne snimatʹ s shei rodovoĭ amulet i dva kresta: katolicheskiĭ i pravoslavnyĭ…Ėto vtoroe posle romana "Ulan Dalaĭ" khudozhestvennoe issledovanie Sudʹby kak fenomena, kotoryĭ slagaetsi͡a iz perepletennykh sudeb naroda, semʹi, lichnosti. Khrupkostʹ i sila ėtogo perepletenii͡a pokazana cherez zhenskiĭ vzgli͡ad: glavnai͡a geroini͡a - ne prosto nabli͡udatelʹ, a zhivoĭ nerv povestvovanii͡a. Dumai͡u, chto koreĭt͡sy, kak i kalmyki, okazalisʹ v t͡sentre vnimanii͡a pisateli͡a nesluchaĭno. Sposobnostʹ vystoi͡atʹ, sokhranitʹ svoi tradit͡sii i dukh v ėpokhalʹnykh katastrofakh i dramakh rodnit dva ėtikh naroda.Vladislav OtroshenkoUdivitelʹno dostoverno peredany mysli, chuvstva, verovanii͡a i bytovye kartiny zhizni koreĭt͡sev v period massovogo ikh iskhoda iz anneksirovannoĭ i͡apont͡sami Korei v Rossii͡u i dalʹneĭshie peripetii ikh sudeb na chuzhbine. I͡A byl udivlen, kak sovpal si͡uzhet romana s tem, o chem rasskazyvali mne moi svetloĭ pami͡ati roditeli, kotorye ispytali na sebe vse ėto.Anatoliĭ Kim

Natalia Ilishkina is the author of the "steppe saga" about the Don Kalmyks "Ulan Dalai". Finalist of the Yasnaya Polyana and Big Book awards.The heroine of the new novel, Mira ("the future" in Korean), worships any magical forces: the spirits of her ancestors and the countryside, Jesus in his Catholic and Orthodox forms, Our Lady Mary, the Antichrist Lenin, the collective Politburo and the brilliant leader Comrade Stalin. She can't figure out why it's necessary to choose one and abandon all other heavenly patrons. Mira is ready to follow her revolutionary husband, the chairman of the Korean section of the Union of atheists, and renounce everything that is outlawed, if only not to remove the ancestral amulet and two crosses from her neck: Catholic and Orthodox…This is the second artistic study of Fate after the novel "Ulan Dalai" as a phenomenon that consists of the intertwined destinies of the people, family, and personality. The fragility and strength of this interweaving is shown through the female gaze: the main character is not just an observer, but a living nerve of the narrative. I think it's no coincidence that Koreans, like Kalmyks, found themselves in the center of the writer's attention. The ability to stand up, preserve their traditions and spirit in epochal disasters and dramas unites these two peoples.Vladislav Otroshenko has surprisingly faithfully conveyed the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and everyday life of Koreans during their mass exodus from Japanese-annexed Korea to Russia and the subsequent vicissitudes of their destinies in a foreign land. I was surprised how the plot of the novel coincided with what my parents, who had experienced all this, had told me about.Anatoly Kim