Арбузный король

Daniel Wallace is a modern American classic, a worthy successor to the traditions of Ray Bradbury and Saul Bellow, Harper Lee and John Updike. His debut novel Big Fish was the basis for a recent Tim Burton film starring Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito. The action of "The Watermelon King" ("the ingenious combination of Chaucer and Roald Dahl in a modern manner", according to one of the critics) takes place in the town of Ashland, already familiar to readers of "Big Fish", "the watermelon capital of the world." The key to Ashland's prosperity is an annual fertility rite, a kind of sacrifice of the last virgin, and some details of the rite are devoutly guarded from outsiders. And now Thomas Ryder comes to the city, knowing only that he was born here and his mother died here. Trying to extract grains of truth from the endless tales of the dreamer-grandfather who raised him, he still does not realize that the long-term intrigue is close to completion and that he is tipped for the role of the next Watermelon King ...
For the first time in Russian.