About the book: 2000 / "The Deal", like "America, America", is one of the most famous works of the American writer and film director Elia Kazan. Immediately after its publication in 1967, the novel became a bestseller. The hero’s “deal” is a kind of agreement concluded with people close to him, with the surrounding reality, with God and the devil. All life is such a comprehensive transaction with the conditions and conventions of human existence.