Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s...

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

The writer worked on it for more than twenty years, but never managed to finish it. Despite this, ‘The Man Without Qualities’ became one of the greatest works of German-language literature, which, without exaggeration, can be called the greatest study of the human soul. 1913. The government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is establishing a committee that is to develop a special plan of events...

‘The novel ‘Peter the First’ is dedicated to a turning point in the history of Russia, ‘when young Russia matured with the genius of Peter,’ the greatest Russian emperor and reformer, a figure as significant as he was controversial.

‘Farewell to Matera’ - the story of the flooding of the island for the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. The village of Matera is destined to sink to the bottom of an artificially created sea - along with the history of entire generations who lived on this land before. Old people come out to defend their small homeland. They cannot come to terms with the destruction of the...

2119 The astronauts, who set off on a flight a hundred years ago and returned home after the accident, get acquainted with the Earth of the future: food delivery lines, robot gardeners, pterocaras - thousands of amazing wonders, everyday for earthlings of the 22nd century. Will there be a place in this strange world for heroes who are late in time?

‘Quiet Don’ is a large-scale epic painting that tells the story of the Don Cossacks during the most controversial, turning point period in the history of our country - the bloody First World War and the fratricidal Civil War, when, in the words of Sholokhov himself, ‘in a fight to the death, brother goes against brother, son - against the father.’

‘The story ‘Cancer Ward’ was conceived by Solzhenitsyn in the summer of 1954 in Tashkent, where, after exile, he was treated at an oncology clinic. Memories of this formed the basis of the story. Her heroes are patients of the ‘cancer ward’. Among them are people of all social classes, ages from all over the vast country. Their destinies reflected the state of Soviet society when, struck by the...

The best cure for blues and depression. Slava Se is the pseudonym of the Latvian author Vyacheslav Soldatenko, who writes in Russian. He is a psychologist by training and works as a plumber. He also plays the guitar, gives concerts in the theater and writes books... Thanks to his good sense of humor and the quality of his literature, his books are very popular.

A humorous bestseller in a convenient pocket format. Slava Se is a writer, screenwriter, playwright, who became famous for his humorous sketches on the Internet in the 2010s, released many collections and fell in love with thousands of fans. Each of his books is full of enchanting characters and comical situations , and all the embarrassments and adventures are written with ease and skill.

Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her 10-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their 98-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor...