Novyy dolgozhdannyy roman, prevoskhodyashchiy granicy lyubyh zhanrov, ot finalista Pulitcerovskoy premii. Molodaya para sbegaet iz puritanskoy kolonii i nachinaet novuyu zhizn' v hizhine, zateryannoy v lesah Zapadnogo Massachusetsa. Vlyublennye ishchut v glushi uedineniya, no vmesto etogo ih dom stanet pristanishchem dlya udivitel'nyh chelovecheskih i nechelovecheskih obitateley, kotorye budut smenyat' drug druga v techenie mnogih desyatiletiy. Sredi nih bravyy angliyskiy soldat, pokinuvshiy pole boya i stavshiy yablochnym fermerom, starye sestry-bliznyashki, razryvaemye strastyami i revnost'yu, zloveshchiy moshennik, bezumnyy ot lyubvi zhuk, prizraki, hranyashchie pokoy vetshayushchego doma, hishchnaya pantera i mnogie drugie. «Severnyy les» - eto udivitel'no izobretatel'nyy roman, napolnennyy lyubov'yu i bezumiem, yumorom i nadezhdoy. Blagodarya ciklichnosti istorii, prirody i dazhe yazyka on pokazyvaet, naskol'ko blizko my vse svyazany - s nashim proshlym, okruzhayushchim mirom i drug s drugom. Eto luchshaya kniga goda po versii vedushchih knizhnyh obozrevateley mira: New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Time, The Boston Globe, NPR, Chicago Public Library, The Star Tribune, The Economist, The Christian Science, Monitor, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bookreporter. V audioversii romana neveroyatno yarkuyu i raznoobraznuyu kollekciyu obrazov masterski peredali Aleksey Bagdasarov i Mariya Orlova.