Onions make people cry. It is a fact. Therefore, when a gang of bow-eaters, obsessed with studying human physiology, invades the Pokoinitsky Castle with their rain gauges, ex-prisoners and poisonous reptiles and begins excavations right in the main hall, the heir Clayton Clementine, a bearer of excess anatomical organs, is also ready to burst into tears. But the readers of Lukoedov have been laughing for thirty years. And they just can’t stop...American-Irish writer James Patrick Dunleavy (b. 1926) wrote one of the most original surrealist novels of the 20th century. The comic epic “Look-eaters” is for the first time in Russian.

J. P. Dunleavy. Onion eaters. Publishing house "Eksmo". Moscow. 2004.

Translation from English by Sergei Artemov