Results of the competition "The Best User of September" with Eksmo and "Inspiria"

It is easy to be happy in the fall: warm plaid, hot tea and favourite book.

The September stage of the competition "The Best User of Month" approached end, it is time to sum up the results!

By tradition at us three winners, everyone will receive on a set from three books!

The winner of Thematic weeks of September becomes the first winner and it is hsaffpann, she receives as a gift:

Sofya Astashova "Possibly, devil"

Young and fresh prose about sick love.
To the sleepyhead twenty one, she lives alone in the small room in the Moscow communal flat. Though it closed and unsociable, concerns itself with irony. Having been admitted to school of literary skill, it approaches professor, and her life turns into series of the greased, gloomy events.

Nell Hudson "Only today"

The magnificent party has to be remembered by all. At any cost. For Johnie and her friends this night promises to become the culmination of their carefree youth, however with approach of dawn all of them should face something more terrible, than a hangover and the torn tights.
But they will not allow the tragedy to sadden their youth and I am eager to muffle love, fun and an eternal holiday. They will try to hold very much gold time when ahead all life and nothing to lose until at last face the inevitable truth: fun anyway will end once. The question only in that is as?

Sandro Veronesi, Edoardo de Angelis is "Commander"

Real story about humanity and honor over which laws of war are not imperious.
1940. Italy is involved in war. After a severe wound of Salvatore Todaro refuses to leave service and undertakes to carry out the submarine with the team of young submariners from different corners of Italy through Gibraltar.
When on the way of Cappellini the cargo Belgian vessel meets, Todaro understands that he has to sink the enemy ship, but the sea law for the commander is higher than the military. Contrary to the order takes to destroy the enemy Todaro aboard 26 survived seamen to bring them to the coast.
So, in the tiny closed space with the general troubles, hopes and supplies very different people to whom long time was said that they are enemies are locked.
The film "Commander" by Edoardo De Angelis shot based on the novel in 2023 will open the Venice Film Festival.

The second winner of Ivetta-52, she receives as a gift:

Bee Seton Berlin

The best-seller of the New York Times, the sarcastic novel about millenials, it is time for them to mature.
Daphné twenty six, and she has an array of problems. The broken heart, the useless diploma of faculty of philology, a problem with food and the growing accounts from psychotherapists.
Perhaps it is worth dealing with them? Though is not present, it is better to run away somewhere to Europe and to start life with a clean slate. For example, to Berlin: new place, new house, new friends. And everything, apparently, goes well, the plan works, only once someone breaks Daphné a window a cobble-stone. And then gets into the house and beats all ware.
Who is it? Sosed-metalist? Terrible former? Poltergeist? Or she just begins to go crazy?
Dafna in detail documents the life in the German capital, drawing a panorama of secular Berlin the foreigner's eyes: caustic, unembellished notes about people, sex and own self-assessment. Whether but in everything it is possible to trust it to words?

Olga Tokarchuk of "Book by Yakov"

"Books by Yakov" on historicity, scope and a plot compare to the epic novel by L. Tolstoy "War and peace". For Olga Tokarchuk who got the Nobel Prize for literature in 2018, this work is peculiar magnum opus which even entered a short list of the Booker Prize.
This first edition in Russia with the original decorating having something in common on stylistics with ancient frescos. Numbering of pages is maintained as in the original — it goes since the end, keeping practice to read the book from left to right.
"The book by Yakov" really is an impressive reader's travel through centuries and the countries, forcing to rethink norms of religion, language, destiny, purpose and simple human relationship that, apparently, are always invariable.

Anthony Passeron "The fallen asleep children"

Many years later after the death of the uncle Anthony Passeron decides to tell a story of the family. To tell about how his grandfather and the grandmother earned by a hard work a living in butcher shop to provide the future of the children. How his father went on their feet. And how his uncle Désiré — hope of family — having stumbled, got to the trap which ruined the whole generation of young people.
The author weaves together two inseparably linked stories: the tragedy which prior to the basis shook several generations of his family, and history of the doctors who were desperately resisting to denial and ignorance in attempts to solve a riddle of the mysterious disease which turned many thousands of people into derelicts.

The third winner of Golden_Nut, she receives as a gift:

Mag Mason "Both in the mountain, and in joy"

All say to Marta that she clever and beautiful that she is a great writer, hotly well-loved by the husband for whom, according to her mother, it is necessary to look still. So why on a threshold of the fortieth anniversary it such lonely, almost jobless and constantly unfortunate? Why the whole day can be required by her to get up and why it constantly pushes away surrounding with the caustic, negligent remarks?
When the husband loving it since fourteen years eventually does not maintain and leaves, and the sister says that she was tired to be reconciled with her cockroaches, Marte does not remain nothing else how to return to the house to the parents, but whether it is possible, having razed everything to the ground, to collect new life from fragments and to fall in love with the familiar person anew?

Maggie Shipstead "Big circle"

"A fascinating story about the women maneuvring between traditions and prejudices to receive that they want". — Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Meriyen Greyvz was a daredevil all the life. After the meeting with pilots-stuntmen she forever falls in love with the sky. In fourteen years Meriyen throws school and meets the rich bootlegger who provides it the plane and pays piloting lessons. In 1950 it goes to the most fascinating adventure — flight around the globe, and completely disappears.
Half a century later Hadley Baxter, the infamous Hollywood actress, are received by the offer to play Meriyen Greyvz. Perhaps, this role will help it to reveal a secret of the well-known disappearance? And to reconcile with the tragedy which changed her life.

Nadifa Mohamed "People of good luck"

1952. Cardiff, Region of Tayger-Bey, haven of the Somali and West Indian seamen, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. These people whose existence in others country entirely depends on good luck preserve it, try to allure, care and cherish, and at the same time at heart perfectly understand that without the good luck they are powerless.
Mahmoud Mattan is a husband, the father, the small speculator and risky small. He is a pleasant interlocutor, the charismatic swindler and the successful player. It anyone, but only not the murderer. When at night cruelly kill the owner of local shop, Mahmoud at once falls under suspicion. He not strongly worries, on the century saw things worse, especially now it is in the country where there is a concept of the law and justice. Only when with approach of date of court its chances of return home begin to thaw, he understands that he the truths can be insufficiently for rescue.

We congratulate winners! We express to all all participants, users of the website huge gratitude for activity!