Nine stories, nine lives, nine circles of hell. Adam Hazlett wrote a book about madness, and it became an instant sensation in the US: 23% of adults suffer from mental disorders. Hazlett's heroes are ordinary people, and each is sick in their own way. Depression, mania, paranoia - a harsh and gloomy landscape. Try not to get lost and feel this pain. Welcome to the underbelly of the human soul. You are not strangers here. Adam Haslett's prose - for the first time in Russian.

In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them.An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An orphaned boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a rest home, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn, teenage volunteer.With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not A Stranger Here is a triumph.