MOSCOW, June 8, Zhanna Staritsyna. The traditional summer festival “Red Square” opened on Thursday. This year more than 400 publishing houses are participating. Many will attend this large event over the weekend. Read about what new book releases are worth paying attention to.
Healing novel for the soul
A South Korean bestseller, book of the year in 37 cities across the country. The owner of a small Seoul store, a pensioner, a former teacher, Mrs. Yeom, is helped by a tramp from the train station named Tokko. Visitors tell him about their difficult life situations, and he finds words of support, consolation and encouragement for everyone. But he doesn't remember anything about himself. The book belongs to an unusual genre of healing novels that help to find harmony and “heal the soul”.
About the technique – simply and with pictures
A bright encyclopedia explains to children how engineering systems work. First, simple ones like a water wheel, then steam engines, subways, nuclear reactors, jet planes and space stations. Lots of illustrations. It will take perseverance, attentiveness and curiosity, but the result is worth it – the child will discover the world of technology around him.
No worse than the Brothers Grimm
Many people are well versed in Greek and Celtic mythology, they know the names of popular superheroes and heroes from Russian fairy tales, but they have not heard anything about the legends of the small peoples of Russia. And in terms of unexpectedness of endings and drama, they can compete with the Brothers Grimm: what is the Ket fairy tale about the month that “walks” along the cold and dark side of the sky, because this half of a person is without a heart? The book contains legends of the Volga region, Kamchatka, Siberia, the Caucasus and other parts of Russia.
About the most popular disease of megacities
Increasingly, residents of megacities are complaining of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Symptoms include problems with concentration and perseverance, difficulty planning, and the inability to “sit in one place.” The author, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Anastasia Afanasyeva, suggests not diagnosing yourself, but learning more about ADHD and talks about basic tests, difficulties in diagnosis, typical life situations.
Survive during change
Debut novel by an author from Zambia about the difficult period of this country in 1990s – economic crisis, devastation, military coup, election unrest, aggressiveness in society. Small children, Chimuka and her brother Ali, find themselves in a world of cruelty and violence. They have to survive, no matter what.
About the main emotions
Many psychologists and teachers today talk about the importance of developing emotional intelligence. A child must understand his own mood and feelings, and also recognize the emotions of others. A Spanish-Italian author tandem has created a series of short stories about 30 emotions – anger, resentment, respect, pride, gratitude, love and others. They are accompanied by advice from psychologists on how to discuss what you have read with your child. The book is intended for children aged six and over.
“And I ask you to stay”
Tatyana Lioznova shot “They Conquer the Sky”, “Three Poplars on Plyushchikha”, “We, the Undersigned”, and also “Carnival” – a picture so similar to her own life. Stirlitz from “Seventeen Moments of Spring” performed by Vyacheslav Tikhonov became a folk hero, phrases from this television film became catchphrases. The book from the “ZhZL” series is based on the study of the director's personal archive, the memories of her students, actors, as well as conversations with her named daughter Lyudmila Lisina.
Uncover a dark secret
For lovers of dark stories – a new book by Alexei Polyarinov, author of the novels “Reef” and “Center of Gravity”. This is a dystopia, a post-apocalypse with elements of horror: in an alternative Russia, it is unclear why frozen bodies of children – cadavers – appear. They cannot be moved or moved. Brother and sister – Matvey and Dasha – must reveal the secret of what is happening. The narrative is nonlinear – the plot continually jumps into the past and back, but this does not prevent it from keeping the reader in suspense.
The name of the killer
The book made a lot of noise in Japan – the author received three literary awards at once, and a film was made based on the novel. The genre is imiyasu, which means that we know the name of the killer from the very beginning, but the motives are not. A pretty student, dreaming of a career in television, leaves an interview, buys a knife, kills her father in cold blood and surrenders to the police. But it doesn’t explain anything—that has to be done by a clinical psychologist. The book is a quick and easy read, but leaves a lot of room for thought.
Book of the Year
Foreign media, including The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, The Boston Globe, unanimously called ” Northern Forest” book of the year. The inventive novel tells the story of a house in the woods of Western Massachusetts that has seen many things over four hundred years: runaway lovers, twins, a soldier, a hunter with a crazy wife… Its inhabitants change like the seasons, but this is the natural cycle of life.
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