Kogda ya umirala

Roman, okazavshiy sereznoe vliyanie na vsyu amerikanskuyu literaturu. Klassika XX veka.«Kogda ya umirala» — zhestkiy i lirichnyy hor semeynoy odissei, gde smert stanovitsya nachalom dolgogo, muchitelnogo puti.Posle gibeli materi, Addi Bandren, eyo semya — upryamaya, nelepaya i predelno chelovecheskaya — otpravlyaetsya cherez selskuyu Missisipi, chtoby ispolnit obeschanie pohoronit eyo v rodnom gorode. Kazhdyy epizod rasskazan novym golosom: fragmenty soznaniya, prostaya rech i vzryvy vnutrenney metafory skladyvayutsya v mozaiku dushevnyh ran i nelepostey byta.