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...

Stirlitz, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer. Max Otto von Stirlitz (Colonel Maxim Maximovich Isaev) won the love of millions of readers and became a truly national hero. Jokes tell about him and continue to argue about his prototypes. For many years, Julian Semenov received letters from readers with an address on the envelope: 'Moscow, the Union of Writers, Semenov for...

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing,...

rytellers of our time, an outstanding master of black humor, an adherent of militant cleanliness and gentle misanthropy. During his long life, Dahl managed to serve in the military aviation, wrote several screenplays, including for Walt Disney, and many books that enjoyed phenomenal success among children and adults and were repeatedly filmed (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr....

For some, the symbol of faith, for some, the view from a tourist postcard is Notre Dame for everyone. That is why, when a fire broke out there in April 2019, millions of people experienced it as a personal tragedy and followed the cathedral's death in real time. In Ivan Chekalov's debut novel, Notre-Dame Cathedral serves as a point of intersection of various destinies. It combines high tragedy...

A similar mood 'Old Woman Izergil' was written two years later. In addition to the life story of Izergil herself, it includes legends: about the haughty son of the eagle Larra and about the selfless Danko, offering three points of view: 'to live outside of people and for oneself' - 'to live with people, but for oneself' - 'to live with people and for people. '' Chelkash ', created in just two...

The hero of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' journalist Viktor Zolotarev receives an unusual task from a major newspaper: to write obituaries for prominent influential people, although they are all still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a participant in a major game of shadow structures, and getting out of it alive turns out to be an almost unrealistic task...

With his novel 'Picnic on Ice' about the Kiev adventures of the writer Victor and the penguin Misha, Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov conquered world literature. He managed to find a good proportion of a mixture of irony, black humor, elements of surrealism and modern reality.

'June' by Dmitry Bykov is, as always, a vivid experiment. Three different stories are united by time and place. The end of the thirties and the middle of 1941. IFLI students, returning from exile, a mad philologist who thinks he has found a way to influence major decisions in the country through text. There is a premonition of war in the air, which the heroes of the novel both fear and rush....

Huragan Katrina spustoszył stany Luizjana i Missisipi w sierpniu 2005 roku. Pozostawił tym samym po sobie nie tylko straty materialne. Zrujnowane domostwa czy wypłukane przez wielką wodę cmentarze to tylko niektóre ich przykłady. Zostawił także traumę w psychice ludzi, którzy go przeżyli. Do miejscowości doświadczonej huraganem przyjeżdża dziewczyna z Polski. Ucieka przed trudnymi przeżyciami,...