Jakob führt den Hof der Eltern und kämpft gegen den Niedergang. Als die Künstlerin Katja sich als Praktikantin anbietet, scheinen sich die Dinge zum Guten zu wenden. Gemeinsam bauen sie eine biologische Tierhaltung auf, sie heiraten und bekommen einen Sohn. Doch Jakob findet keine Ruhe, sein grausamer Zorn bricht immer wieder hervor. Hat Katja ihn getäuscht, hat sie nur mal einen wie ihn...

Nach seinem erfolgreichen Roman ›Fremde Seele, dunkler Wald‹, der auf der Shortlist des deutschen Buchpreises stand, schreibt Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker über die Umbrüche unserer Gegenwart. Nach Jahren auf Reisen kehrt ein Journalist in den Ort seiner Kindheit zurück, an dem er nie heimisch war. Er schreibt für das kriselnde Lokalblatt, er beginnt eine Affäre und arbeitet auf dem Hof eines...

'There are Russian fairy tales where the hero, some kind of Ivan the Fool, stops at the crossroads of three roads. One is to the right, the other is to the left, the third is straight. If you go to the right, you will find death, if you go to the left, you will meet love, and if you go straight, the kingdom with chests full of gold. Plus a golden toilet. What to choose: death, love or wealth?...

The surest way to creative immortality is to write from the point of view of eternity. It is from this position that Chingiz Aitmatov, a classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature, a laureate of prestigious awards, writes his prose. His books - 'And the Day Lasts More Than a Century ...', 'Scaffold' and many others have been translated into dozens of languages. These novels became the property of...

Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy-despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable...

From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing and at times sublime memories of her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her...

Three friends must urgently find the fourth, who disappeared in an unknown direction, and inform him about the suicide of his stepfather. Sasha Carburetor must make it to the funeral...

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.