Prayer for Aries Mini

John Irving's world-famous novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" (1989) is a true hymn to the unbreakable friendship of two boys, and later young people, in those difficult times for America, when the Vietnam War caused dramatic contradictions in a turbulent society.

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, a boy who will never grow taller than five feet and has a very strange voice, takes part in a baseball game and for the first time in his life makes a strong and accurate hit, which turns out to be fatal. The ball, flying into the stands, kills the mother of his best friend Johnny Wheelwright - the main narrator of the novel. Owen does not believe in accidents, but he believes that he is an instrument of God. And what happens to him after that fatal hit is at the same time strange, unusual and sometimes terrifying. Sometimes the main character seems like a comic victim of self-suggestion, believing in his own chosenness, but in the end he really turns out to be a tragic executor of a divine plan. Aries Meaney is the most desperate and pathetic hero that a writer has ever created.

This book is not only an occasion for reflection on fate and destiny. It will make you laugh and cry louder and longer than any other novel you can remember.