In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life...

Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia's best-regarded writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to craft stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Rich in comparison but devoid of cheap sentiment, Osipov's fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait...

France, 1685. The Sun King establishes Catholicism as the only legal religion. Huguenot groups cross the country to reach the north, where they hope to find a new homeland

A literary, imaginative ode to the borderland, not only geographical, physical, but in the broadest sense of the word... One of the most famous and most widely commented novels by Olga Tokarczuk.

The Republic on the eve of partitions, a multicultural, multiethnic land closer to Istanbul than Paris and a man from nowhere who will change the fate of many thousands of people. A great journey from peasant cottages through magnate courts to imperial chambers.

An unexpectedly chilling novel from the author of the bestsellers Hana, Tiché roky, Listopád. They call her Cácora and it seems that she was born by accident and as if on purpose. Her father disappeared somewhere during the floods, her mother runs away from responsibility to lovers and alcohol - and the little girl is left hanging on the neck of her unfriendly grandmother, who manages the...

From the royal trip to the Netherlands, Marie III. Kostková will bring back not only experiences and a photo with Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, but also a love affair, which will only be ‘silvered’ at the very end of the new sequel; Helenka Vondrácková will also appear at the castle, among others. However, there will be more love affairs on Kostka, and most of them will be recorded by a film...

František Antonín Count Kostka of Kostka is a descendant of a noble family living in New York. After the fall of the communist regime, he returns to Bohemia with his American wife Vivien and daughter Marie (III.) to take over the family seat. In addition to the castle, the count's family ‘inherits’ the staff: a reactionary castellan, a hypochondriac gardener and a cook who likes to click and...

In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.

Motanka is a collection of short fiction by Ukrainian writers about women's experiences of war and the incredible powers that manifest themselves in special circumstances. Fantasy, magical realism, steampunk, and even post-apocalypse; events that take place both in ancient times and in the days of modern war, in recognizable worlds or completely fantastic reality. These are twelve stories...

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

July 2014, Donbass. A student named Zhanna returns to her native mining village from Kharkov to look after her dying mother. At the same time, their young neighbor nicknamed Valet and an elderly secret service officer named Korol arrive from Moscow - both on assignment from the Russian military command. Something terrible and irreparable is about to happen. But this is not the first time...