"Higher than стропила, carpenters" are quotation from "Epithalamium", wedding song of the ancient Greek poetess Сапфо.In the day of wedding of protagonist, Симора Гласса, his sister wrote with обмылком on the mirror of bathroom : "Higher than стропила, carpenters! A groom similar to Арею enters, higher than the highest husbands".Симор Гласс - chief from seven brothers and sisters. For those, who with him is small acquainted, it is a queer, unstable bird. And only the near know other Симора - philosopher, poet, man deep and thinly feeling.A story is imbued by the spirit of zen buddhism and nonconformism and very a great deal gives for understanding of Сэлинджера - one of the most considerable writers of the XX century.The same work it is possible to find in other translation