Here I am

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels "Full Illumination", "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", "Here I Am" and the non-fiction works "Meat. Eating Animals" and "The Weather Is Us". Foer's latest fiction novel has been awaited for more than ten years. "Here I Am" is a large-scale epic narrative, a book that clearly claims to be a great American novel. The Russian reader will certainly remember the well-known quote from "Anna Karenina": "Every family is unhappy in its own way." For the heroes of the novel "Here I Am", Jacob and Julia, who have lived half their lives in marriage and raised three sons, discord is perceived not just as a misfortune - as the end of the world. A private tragedy is aggravated by a global tragedy - a strong earthquake in the Middle East leads to an escalation of military conflict. The connection between times and between people is broken - loneliness is felt with unprecedented intensity, everyone finds themselves alone with their fears. From now on, the heroes will have to look at their lives in a new way and see the gap - between the life they want and the life they live.