In the Oregon forests, on the banks of the great Wakonda-Auga River, in the town of Wakonda, life is like an ancient Greek tragedy with no room for error. In the midst of slush, and autumn, and the desperate logging race, and the doomed strike, the Stamper clan, notoriously stubborn, vagabonds and loners, lives by its own laws, and there is no force that can break them. Everyday struggle with the elements and exorbitantly hard work here take on truly Old Testament proportions. Ordinary people grow into all-powerful giants. A story of love, work, perseverance and duty turns into the greatest parable of the century. On this earth there are many half-tones, but there are no half-measures and nothing can be done half-heartedly. Before you is the most grandiose novel of the twentieth century, and it was written by Ken Kesey - the great American writer, guru of the 1960s, “merry prankster” and “man of the earth”, Jack London character and herald of the new reality. “Sometimes a great whim” - finally in a new translation.