Tolstaia tetrad' [Thick Notebook]

'Thick Notebook' - a trilogy of Agota Christoph, a Swiss writer of Hungarian descent, translated into thirty languages. Critics enthusiastically accepted this novel - 'a postnitscheansky nightmare stylized as a children's diary' with its absurdity, boundless cruelty and black humor. They compared it to Gunter Grass's Tin Drum, J. Banks's Aspen Factory, and Sasha Sokolov's School of Fools. But this is Agota Christoph and her own, nothing like the world of the twin trilogy: 'Thick Notebook'. 'Evidence'. 'Third lie.' A classic of modern literature! War. Big city. Bombing. Fear of starvation. Mother takes twin sons to wilderness to grandmother. But this is not the idyllic Village House. The brothers end up in a strange world where they must survive at all costs. They understand that the only way to overcome the cruelty of the world is through training to become insensitive and merciless. They write down each experience in a notebook.