In a world dominated by silence, cold and darkness, where most of the inhabitants sleep without waking up, not many events can disturb the peace. Except that the message that comes is not known from whom, it is not known where and it is not known how. The message that Eva-Lisa, Tim and Max have been waiting for so long. A message that will force them to leave their home, outside of which only...

After a conflict with her father, young violinist Romana moves to a provincial town and starts working at a music school. Somehow, among the junk in the attic of an old house, she finds a violin, notes of an unknown melody and a letter. Who did it all belong to? Who lived here before? Now she needs to learn the secret and regain the memory of the unjustly lost, of the unusual forgotten...

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of...

om, the Cossacks hacked to death his father, his ear was cut off. There are riots in Kiev, the city is again captured by the Bolsheviks, but they have almost no control over the situation. Citizens are being robbed by real and fake Red Army soldiers, on the outskirts of Kiev every now and then gangs of all kinds of atamans - Zeleny, Grigoriev, Struk - are in charge ... Surviving is getting...

As Penny starts the school year she’s ready to face the world—alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early, and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan’s invitation to visit her performing arts school, it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends.

'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.

В сборник «Рассказы А.П. Чехова по-русски и по-казахски» вошли 10 рассказов А.П. Чехова в русском оригинале и в переводе на казахский язык

‘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...

Als »ein Volksstück und die Parodie dazu« bezeichnete Alfred Polgar Ödön von Horváths Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. Mit dem Kleist-Preis ausgezeichnet, wurde Horváths Volksstück 1931 an Max Reinhardts Deutschem Theater in Berlin unter der Regie von Heinz Hilpert uraufgeführt, »das bitterste, das bitterböseste Stück neuer Literatur«, wie Kurt Pinthus schrieb. In der New York Times war zu...

Dina Rubina’s book ‘White Horses’ is the second volume of the trilogy ‘Napoleonic convoy’. If ‘The Rowan Wedge’ - the first book of the series - was the beginning of the action, from which we learned about the origin of the love of two heroes - Aristarchus and Nadezhda, modern Orpheus and Eurydice, then ‘White Horses’ is the culmination in the development of their relationship.