John Hawkes was called "a writer's writer," and John Barth considered him "the brightest—and darkest—star of twentieth-century American literature." "The Irish Squint" is a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, told by Joyce, where the main character, Irish orphan Dervla O'Shannon, is not always what she seems at first glance. In order to discern the truth in the world of fantasy and deception, gloomy hallucinations filled with black humor, you need to squint a little...

The last novel by one of the greatest postmodernists, John Hawkes (1925-1998), is for the first time in Russian.< /p>