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Erlend Lu (r. 1969) - znamenityy norvezhskiy pisatel', laureat ryada nacional'nyh i mezhdunarodnyh premiy. Ego debyutnyy roman "Vo vlasti zhenschiny" (1993), priznannyy kritikami "chrezvychayno smeshnym i iskusnym", naibolee yavno otrazhal vliyanie pisatelya, kotorogo Lu nazyval svoim uchitelem, - Richarda Brotigana (ego "Grezy o Vavilone" na norvezhskiy perevodil sam Lu). Roman "Naivno. Super" (1996) stal bestsellerom v pyatnadcati stranah i sdelal Lu figuroy bez preuvelicheniya kul'tovoy. Ne men'shiy uspeh ozhidal knigi "Luchshaya strana v mire, ili Fakty o Finlyandii" (2001) i "Doppler" (2004). I vot - samyy masshtabnyy roman Erlenda Lu - "U" (1999), svoego roda sintez "Puteshestviya na Kon-Tiki" Tura Heyerdala i "Plyazha" Aleksa Garlenda. Geroi Lu tozhe otpravlyayutsya v Polineziyu, no celi u nih neskol'ko neobychnye: odin hochet dokazat', chto zhiteli arhipelaga pribyli iz Yuzhnoy Ameriki ne na plotah, a na kon'kah, drugoy sostavlyaet periodicheskuyu sistemu devushek…