Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber. MacArthur Fellowship for Genius , master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax , well-known to our reader novels "Old people do not belong here" (the film of the Coen brothers from this book received four Oscars). "The Road" (received the Pulitzer Prize and was also screened) and "Koni, Horses … » (received the US National Book Award and was moved to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz). But for the first time, McCarthy became famous for the novel “Bloody Meridian, or Sunset Scarlet in the West”, it was after this book that not only literary critics, but also the general public spoke about him. The venerable Englishman John Banville, Booker's laureate, called this novel "a kind of mixture of Dantov's 'Hell', 'Iliad' and 'Moby Dick'". The protagonist of "Blood Meridian", a fourteen-year-old teenager from Tennessee, known only as "the little boy", becomes the hero of the newest epic, based on the real events and circumstances of the Texas-Mexico borderland of the mid-19th century, where the Indian scalp market is booming … .... For the first time in Russian. [