But our main character is a city boy. University professor Antos loses his faithful friend, the beagle Argus. At the same time, his wife decides that their marriage has exhausted itself. Looking for a hobby to occupy his mind, Anton agrees to help his friend and decipher the text of mysterious notebooks found in an attic in one of the villages near the Abyss - the swamp near which the main...

'Red Cross' is a story about memory and oblivion. A young football referee, Alexander, Sasha, comes to Minsk to try to rebuild a life broken in half by the will of an indifferent fate. And here he stumbles upon a woman, ninety-one-year-old Tatyana Alekseevna, who survived Stalin’s terror with the hope of asking God a few questions sooner or later.

In fact, this book is about people being afraid to live, being afraid to fight, being afraid to speak up, being afraid to be like their mothers, being afraid to fall off a horse, being afraid to admit the obvious, being afraid to break up with a drug addict, being afraid to suffer, being afraid to get into an accident, being afraid to put a comma in the wrong place, being afraid to be...

Eine Halbinsel im nordfriesischen Wattenmeer. Hier, an der Nordsee, lebt Annett, Ende vierzig, seit vielen Jahren, hier hat sie nach dem frühen Tod ihres Mannes ihre Tochter Linn allein großgezogen. Linn, Mitte zwanzig, ist nach dem Abitur voller Energie in die Welt gezogen, hat sich in schwedischen und rumänischen Wäldern als Umweltvolontärin engagiert, arbeitet für ein Aufforstungsprojekt....

„Das Mädchen hatte schon immer gewusst, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmte.’ Cordelia, unehelich geboren, ist eine „Dreivierteljüdin’, ihre Mutter eine berühmte Schriftstellerin und glühende Katholikin. Im entscheidenden Moment schützt diese nicht ihre Tochter, sondern rettet sich selbst. Mit 14 Jahren wird Cordelia Edvardson nach Auschwitz deportiert. Ihr Roman ist die schmerzhafte Annäherung an...

Dieser Klassiker im neuen Gewand ist ein Schatz für alle, die auf der Suche nach pointierten, praktischen Lebensweisheiten sind. Er versammelt Kästners schönste und klügste Aphorismen, von denen viele längst zu geflügelten Worten geworden sind. Es ist geradezu verblüffend, wie viele bekannte Zitate sich hier auf engstem Raum tummeln - eine gute Gelegenheit, Kästner kennenzulernen oder ihn in...

What is the power of the mighty boas over the naive, simple-minded rabbits based on? On fear - blinding, irrational, paralyzing fear. What is the idea of a furiously brave rabbit who tried to throw off this bloodthirsty power based on? On a simple denial of fear - after all, how can you intimidate those who, in principle, have nothing to lose? But why are the rabbits even more dissatisfied with...

A tragic incident pushes him to choose a profession - he becomes a doctor. Only again everything is like many others: medical school - private clinic - devoted wife...Ogarev accepts the rules of the game of an adult, but... life again presents him with something unexpected - love for a strange girl, for whom the main thing is freedom from everything and everyone, including from life itself...’

Lazar Lindt, a brilliant scientist and a big child, ‘a lawless comet in a circle of calculating luminaries’, is the center of the infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, the wife of his older friend, will fall in love with a funny young man who appeared on the threshold of her house in 1918, not at all filial love, but it will remain his secret. After the...

Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old subversive he once spied upon. Soon, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych band together to uncover the...

The protagonists of Andris Kurprišs’s debut collection are at times melancholy and worrisome, and world-angry or absurdist at others. Kuprišs plays with tension, a building up to climaxes reminiscent of Henry James—but with endings that leave a lingering sense of having missed some important detail, some sinister clue that will reveal all meaning. Deceptively simple, nostalgic, and resigned,...

On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the city, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbors, families, children-nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same.