The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...

Stories about tools and their capabilities. Fresh news! Why were hares banned from carrying screwdrivers into flight buses? The cat grabbed the drill: what was he up to? After eating porridge, we snack on the iron wire!

About transport and its tests. Everything will slide and spill, spin and fall off - we know what little ones love!

An introduction to Belarusian intellectualism from one of its most famous — and most controversial — proponents and defenders. A rousing vocabulary, brazen enthusiasm, unyielding sarcasm, and paradoxical sharpness of thought. A new culture of national thinking. The birth of a legend.This is the first reprint in 25 years of a cult book that was first published in 1998. With the author’s...

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...

The fifth edition of Algirdas Bakharevich's opus magnum, the novel ‘The Dogs of Europe’, banned in the Republic of Belarus. Books about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as the Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

Only seven friends understand the quagmire of lies their country has fallen into, under what autocratic oppression and in what fog of vile propaganda people live. These seven remember: the country was once different. And only seven know that they have the only chance to return the former will, the former truth and the former happiness. But first you need to survive here, come up with a plan and...

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk...

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.