The Midnight Library
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- Издательство:Canongate Books
- ISBN:9781786892706
- Год:2020
«Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations . . .»
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Обо всём этом и не только в книге The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
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4«The Midnight Library» Matt Haig
Каждый проживший хотя бы пару десятков лет о чем-либо сожалел и задумывался о добровольном уходе из жизни. Сожаления могут принимать формы кратковременных “эх, неплохо было бы” с расфокусированным взглядом поверх головы собеседника... Читать далее
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4«The Midnight Library» Matt Haig
Основной мотивацией к ознакомлению с ней стал мой любимый Goodreads, пользователи которого признали книгу «Midnight library» лучшей в категории «fiction». Для кого-то может показаться удивительным этот выбор, но почти совсем не известный у нас... Читать далее
«On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.»
«He forever dreamed of travel, but never did much of it beyond a subscription to National Geographic and the occasional holiday to somewhere in the Cyclades.»
