Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila...

‘The novel ‘The Kukotsky Case’ takes place in the forties and sixties: the end of the Stalinist era, the defeat of genetics, the death of a tyrant, the thaw, the first jazzmen. Against the backdrop of all these events is the life of Pavel Alekseevich Kukotsky, a brilliant doctor endowed with the gift of ‘inner vision.’ Physicality and , it would seem, the crudest physiology (here the author...

'Legends of Arbat' is a collection of incredibly funny and dizzying stories from the Soviet and recent past. Ruthless truth and folk mythology form a brilliant alloy and explosive mixture.

Here cattlemen steal geese, drink port on the roof of the Kazan Cathedral, Soviet citizens hunt for shortages and mock the leaders; here the romantic builders of the Great Empire love, believe and cheat, and the golden Brezhnev era becomes clearer in the haze like a beautiful and nostalgic picaresque novel.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from...

You are holding in your hands a new (and, according to the author, definitely the last) book about the adventures of Manyuni, Narka and other wonderful residents of the small town of Berd.

The novel's heroes, Aristarchus and Nadezhda, were destined for each other and possessed a rare talent of love that not everyone has. Not everyone can withstand such love. Their lives were shaken, twisted and lifted to the crest of the ninth wave. Modern Orpheus and Eurydice had to enter into a duel with fate. They did not have the chance to live together, but death united them.