First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is...

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.

It’s not Avi’s fault, it’s those sourish, mind-bending little berries that are to blame, those tiny wee spheres. Bilberries, bletherberries that befuddle the mind, babbleberries that give you a kick. The beautiful green forest scales, the timber songs, play out like a kaleidoscope before his eyes. It’s hard tae breathe, yer haunds skedaddle awa… In a camp at the edge of a forest children are...

Georg-Büchner-Preis 2025. Ein radikal gegenwärtiger Roman über die abgründigen Beziehungen zwischen Söhnen und ihren Müttern. Mit einer Sprachkraft, die Staunen macht, erzählt die preisgekrönte Schriftstellerin Ursula Krechel von symbiotischer Mutterschaft, von existenziell gefährdeten Frauen und von politischer Gewalt.

Eine Frau will mit ihrer Cousine und deren Mann ein paar Tage in einem Jagdhaus in den Bergen verbringen. Nach der Ankunft unternimmt das Paar noch einen Gang ins nächste Dorf und kehrt nicht mehr zurück. Am nächsten Morgen stößt die Frau auf ein unsichtbares, glattes, kühles Hindernis - eine unüberwindbare Wand, hinter der Totenstarre herrscht. Abgeschlossen von der übrigen Welt, richtet sie...

With the cold calculation of a surgeon, the inquisitiveness of a discoverer and the imagination of an artist, Vladimir Sorokin dissects reality, bringing to light the main contradictions and philosophical dilemmas of modern society. How do new myths appear and old ones change, what influence does classical literature and, more broadly, culture have on our lives, where are the boundaries between...

The new novel by Vladimir Sorokin is a look at the future of Europe, which, despite the dramatic changes in the world and human structure, seems very understandable and real. The recognizable and the unrecognizable coexist peacefully on the bright tapestry of the New Middle Ages, populated by dog-heads and centaurs, small people and giants, crusaders and Orthodox communists. Infinitely...

Comrades, who is the last? A cult novel by one of the brightest and most scandalous contemporary writers. People of different social classes, different political views, different beliefs and preferences will meet in a multi-kilometer queue. Vladimir Sorokin's novel 'The Queue' has something that is characteristic of all the great works of world literature: over time, it not only did not lose...

The collection ‘Monoclone’ includes twelve stories, complex and multifaceted, like life itself: in them truth is intertwined with fiction, pornographic with lyrical, realistic with absurdist, sincere with shocking. Sorokin's stories, like his great prose, are truly polyphonic: his characters are living people, endowed with their own voice and subconscious, into the study of the depths of which...

A gripping and incredibly funny autofiction about how people don't hear each other. – A young writer works in a shop selling absurdly expensive designer candles in New York City and can't help her customers. – New York 2019–2021: capitalism and survival on the other side of the globe.

Memory Burn, is a coming-of-age story of a queer boy from a Czech industrial town. Torcík’ delves into the recesses of memory in an effort to come to terms with painful memories from his childhood. As a homosexual boy with a slight build growing up in a small industrial town, the protagonist of the story faces severe bullying at school, but his problems aren’t over once he gets home: his...

Willowdean – 16, Dolly-Parton-Verehrerin und die Dicke vom Dienst – wird von ihrer Mutter immer nur Dumplin' genannt. Bisher hat sie sich in ihrem Körper eigentlich immer wohl gefühlt. Sie ist eben dick – na und? Mit ihrer besten Freundin Ellen an ihrer Seite ist das sowieso total egal. Doch dann lernt sie den sportlichen und unfassbar attraktiven Bo kennen. Kein Wunder, dass sie sich...