Publisher's Synopsis
Geroi rasskazov sbornika "Sup gaspacho" - sovetskie (i post-, i antisovetskie) intelligenty, a sjuzhet - opyt ih vzhivanija v povsednevnost'. Menjajutsja vremena, politicheskie rezhimy, goroda i strany, a jetot process - process prisposoblenija, poiska svoego mesta (v zhizni voobshhe i v konkretnyh obstojatel'stvah), poprishha, zarabotka, ljubvi, - neizmenno sochetaet gorech' neudach s radost'ju tvorchestva, otkrytij v iskusstve, chelovecheskoj blizosti. Ob jetom i rasskazyvaet - so znaniem dela, sochuvstviem, jumorom i masterstvom - pisatel'nica Katja Kapovich. Avtor knigi - Katja Kapovich - russkij i amerikanskij pojet, prozaik. S 1992 goda zhivet v g. Boston, shtat Massachusets. Laureat "Russkoj premii" v kategorii "malaja proza" (2012). Publikacii (stihi i proza) v zhurnalah "Novyj mir" (1991, 2018), "Znamja" (1997, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018), "Druzhba narodov" (2014), "Zvezda" (2004, 2006, 2007, 2017), "Volga" (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) i drugih. Premii za proizvedenija na anglijskom jazyke: Witter Bynner Fellowship Biblioteki Kongressa SShA (2002). Kniga "Gogol in Rome" (2004) - short-list Poetry Trust's 2005 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Stihotvorenija "The Green One Over There", "The Ferry" i "Painting a Room" (2003) vkljucheny v spisok "Poetry-180" (rekomendovano dlja izuchenija pojezii v shkole) Biblioteki Kongressa USA.
