About the book: 2021 / Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber, laureate of the MacArthur Fellowship “For Genius”, master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax, well known to our readers for the novels “No Country for Old Men” (the Coen brothers’ film based on this book received four Oscars), “The Road” (received a Pulitzer Prize and was also filmed) and “Blood Meridian” (“a kind of mixture of Dante’s "Ada", "The Iliad" and "Moby Dick", in the words of Booker winner John Banville). The novels "Horses, Horses..." (awarded by the US National Book Award and brought to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz), "Beyond the Line" and "Sodom and Gomorrah" make up the "Border Trilogy". This is a magnificent combination of heroic saga and melodrama, imbued with the directness of a classic Western and the elegance of a half-forgotten myth. Here, young heroes - either wanting, like all teenagers, to become real men, or consumed by American wanderlust, or obeying the call of the Holy Grail - one day mount horses and, having crossed the river separating Texas from Mexico, find themselves in a mythological space. It’s as if they turn into heroes of an ancient, cruel epic, where people meet ghosts, and violence is as swift as lightning... “The world of Cormac McCarthy is an old world, more spacious than the one to which we are accustomed; it is a world in no hurry, a world of moral absolutes, a world openly opposed to modernity" (New Republic).