On Friday night next to last, 6-th book of British writer Joan Rowling about Harry Potter, appeared on Russian book store shelves.

As publishing house "Rusmen", which has bought rights on publishing of book on Russian language, interpreters of 6-th book became Maya Lakhuti and Sergey Il`in. The latter translated English version of Vladmir Nabokov`s books.

"Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince" is the most thrilling and mysterious history about young wizard. The main hero and his friends are already 16 years old. Along with main characters, the book has also changed - not it is not only fairy-tale but real English novel with dramatic relationships, detective intrigue and excellent sense of humor.

Russian version of the book about adventure of boy-wizard has 672 pages. In several large book stores of Russia festive events were organized in the view of sale start. Publishing house admitted that first edition, which is 800 thousands of examples, is not enough and 6-th book of Rowling epopee will be printed in addition.

As a reminder, film "Harry Porter and The Goblet Of Fire", based on 4-th book, will be released in Russia on December 22.
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