Лучшие книги Барри Хайнса

В книге представлены два романа известного английского прозаика, посвященные жизни молодежи Великобритании. Трагична судьба подростка, который задыхается в атмосфере отчуждения и жестокости, царящих в "обществе потребления" ("Пустельга для отрока"); но еще более печальна и бесперспективна участь другого героя, окончившего школу и не находящего применения своим силам в условиях спада, захлестнувшего экономику Великобритании.
Перевод с английского Б. Носика и А. Николаевской. Составление Г. Анджапаридзе. Предисловие Н. Коневой.

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life. Barry Hines's acclaimed novel…

Объединенные в одной книге романы современных английских писателей рассказывают о жизни простых людей сегодняшней Великобритании. "Вокруг Манода" - роман о том, как жители провинциального городка в Уэльсе выступают против планов международной компании превратить их родную землю в стандартный, безликий индустриальный центр.

George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not.

Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a labourer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentimentality.

Rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines’s A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.