Cormack McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber, a winner of the MacArthur Fellowship “For Genius”, a master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax, well known to our readers for his novels “No Country for Old Men” (the Coen brothers’ film based on this book received four Oscars) ), “The Road” (received a Pulitzer Prize and was also filmed) and “Horses, Horses...” (received the US National Book Award and was brought to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz). But for the first time McCarthy became famous precisely for the novel “Blood Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West”; it was after this book that not only literary critics, but also the general public started talking about him. The venerable Englishman John Banville, a Booker laureate, called this novel “a kind of mixture of Dante’s Inferno, Iliad and Moby Dick.” The main character of "Blood Meridian", a fourteen-year-old teenager from Tennessee, known only as "the kid", becomes the hero of the newest epic, based on real events and circumstances of the Texas-Mexico borderland of the mid-19th century, where the market for Indian scalps is booming... For the first time in Russian.< /p>