4321

"4321" - the first novel in seven years. He was immediately shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize, and Western critics call him the author's main work. Oster himself admitted that he wrote it seven days a week for three years. based on the novel - an idea that has always occupied the writer: he has long thought about the role of chance in fate, about what life could be like if a different decision was made, if at some point a person turned the other way.

Oster is rightly called a classic of postmodernism: under one cover, he put not one story, but four. At some point, the plot is divided into four major branches, each of which corresponds to one of the possible lives of the protagonist - Archie Ferguson. And in each of his four lives, he goes through all the stages of growing up: experiencing changes in relationships with family and friends, trying to arrange his personal life, participating in events related to culture, sports and politics of 1950-1960, on which were the youth of the heroes and which became so important to America. Since each of the Fergusons has its own layer of culture, so the coverage is as wide as possible.