Аннотация
Jim Crace
All That Follows
With thanks to
Roy Fisher (piano)
Gerard Presencer (horns)
Ryan “Chopper” Fisher (guitar)
and Birmingham Jazz
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
— BERTRAND RUSSELL1
THE HAIR IS UNMISTAKABLE: old-fashioned Russian hair, swept back from the forehead, thickly and unusually abundant. Leonard stands on the rug a meter from the television screen to see more closely. The video footage is grainy and unsteady, purposefully amateur. The man reading the prepared statement in the curtained room does not mean to be recognized. Indeed, he has masked his face to the bridge of the nose with what appears to be a child’s scarf. His voice, crudely distorted on the sound track, is childlike too. He wears sunglasses, defiantly unfashionable E-clips, ten years old at least. The light beam from the camera is lasere...
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