For the first time in Russian - the debut novel of the cult American writer and screenwriter Peter Hedges, the basis of the film of the same name by Lasse Hallström (ABBA, The Cider House Rules, Chocolate, Hachiko) starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio ; For the role of Arnie Grape, young DiCaprio received his first Oscar nomination, and the film’s cinematographer was the legendary Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman’s regular cameraman. Twenty-four-year-old Gilbert Grape works as a salesman in a grocery store and lives in the city of Endora, Iowa (population: 1,091 people). ), where almost everything gnaws at him. He would be happy to go somewhere, but he is kept at home by an overwhelming (literally) mother, a younger brother with developmental problems, a sister who is still mourning the death of Elvis, and a long-standing affair with an older woman. And then one day, during the summer holidays, a mysterious beauty comes to Endora, who, riding around the city on a bicycle, makes all the guys dizzy and who turns Gilbert’s world upside down...

“A fresh, sincere coming-of-age novel - and at the same time time an elegy for the underdogs and outsiders who find themselves on the margins of the American Dream. It's like a David Lynch film, designed by our local primitive artists."(The New York Times)