The Big Green Tent (Zelyony Shatyur)

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's new novel, 'The Green Tent,' can rightfully claim a place of honor among the greatest books that shape ideas and interpret an era. 'The Green Tent' is a novel about love, destinies, and characters. It is truly psychological prose. But at the same time, Ulitskaya's new work is broader than these definitions. And, as always with Ulitskaya, beyond the ideological and moral message, there is also an emotionally charged image, that unique gift that has brought her books to millions of readers in dozens of languages. Only she possesses a penetrating irony, thanks to which many episodes, within a single paragraph, flow from high tragedy to almost Schweikian comedy. 'The Green Tent' is a deeply serious and deeply funny book.