In the work of John Irving - an outstanding American classic, author of the famous bestseller "The World According to Garp", winner of two Oscars and a National Book Award - the novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" (1989) occupies a very special place. The story of a boy who knows no doubt, who gains strange power over people and the very course of things, is full of mystical events and almost detective mysteries, inexplicable coincidences and mirror repetitions, in turn repeating - sometimes ironically - the plot of the Gospel. How is it that eleven-year-old Owen Meany, after accidentally killing his best friend's mother, leads him to God? Why does a frail, big-eared child speaking in falsetto, like Christ, foresee his fate: he knows exactly when and how he will die? According to Stephen King, “no one has ever shown Christ like Irving in his novel.” The masterly skill of the storyteller and the fantastic ingenuity of the plot make John Irving's book a real phenomenon of great literature.