Другой мужчина и другие романы и рассказы

Zachityvai͡asʹ gomerovskoĭ "Odisseeĭ" i romanom bezymi͡annogo avtora o pobege nemet͡skogo soldata iz sibirskogo plena, i͡unyĭ Peter Debauer v romane "Vozvrashchenie" ne srazu dogadyvaetsi͡a, chto sudʹba daet emu nitochku, kotorai͡a pomozhet rasputatʹ klubok byleĭ i nebylit͡s, svi͡azannykh s sudʹboĭ ego ne to propavshego bez vesti, ne to pogibshego na voĭne ott͡sa. Dvadt͡satʹ s lishnim let prosidev za reshetkoĭ, byvshiĭ ulʹtralevyĭ terrorist i gorodskoĭ partizan Ĭorg vykhodit na svobodu v "Trekh dni͡akh" i lit͡som k lit͡su stalkivaetsi͡a s byvshimi edinomyshlennikami i neizbezhnymi voprosami: v chem smysl budushchego, esli proshlai͡a zhiznʹ byla oshibkoĭ, i v chem smysl budushchego, esli v proshlom ostalasʹ edinstvenno vozmozhnai͡a zhiznʹ? A v "Dezertirakh li͡ubvi" ochenʹ raznye li͡udi pytai͡utsi͡a postichʹ, chto takoe li͡ubovʹ, pochemu my bezhim ot nee, pochemu ee zhazhdem, pochemu ne berezhem - i poroĭ nekotorym iz nikh priotkryvaetsi͡a khoti͡a by namek na istinu. Bernkhard Shlink, sovremennyĭ klassik nemet͡skoĭ literatury, avtor bestsellerov "Chtet͡s" i "Vnuchka", pishet knigi, v kotorykh samye glavnye sobytii͡a - voprosy do vozniknovenii͡a otvetov, a chelovek vechno balansiruet na krai͡u, v neprochnom ravnovesii, v seroĭ zone mezhdu dobrom i zlom, ne v silakh otvesti vzgli͡ada ot strogoĭ mekhaniki i buĭnoĭ prirody Istorii.

Reading Homer's "Odyssey" and the novel by an unnamed author about the escape of a German soldier from Siberian captivity, young Peter Debauer in the novel "The Return" does not immediately realize that fate gives him a thread that will help unravel the tangle of stories and tall tales related to the fate of his father, who was either missing or died in the war. After spending more than twenty years behind bars, former ultra-leftist terrorist and urban guerrilla Jorg is released in "Three Days" and comes face to face with former like-minded people and the inevitable questions: what is the meaning of the future if the past life was a mistake, and what is the meaning of the future if the only possible life remained in the past? And in "Deserters of Love," very different people try to understand what love is, why we run away from it, why we crave it, why we don't cherish it — and sometimes some of them discover at least a hint of the truth. Bernhard Schlink, a modern classic of German literature, author of the bestsellers "The Reader" and "The Granddaughter," writes books in which the most important events are questions before answers arise, and a person is forever teetering on the edge, in a precarious balance, in a gray zone between good and evil, unable to take his eyes off strict mechanics and the violent nature of History.