Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a...

Every time a promising villain appears, Saitama beats the snot out of Æem with one punch! Can he finally find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of superpowered boredom?

Jeans infested with lice, larvae under the skin of an African guest, a portrait of Mao Zedong showing through at night on a Chinese carpet, swastikas hidden in the construction of houses, chewing gum with crushed glass - this is an incomplete list of Soviet urban legends about dangerous things. The book by well-known folklorists and anthropologists A. Arkhipova (RANEPA, Russian State University...

In 2114, humanity creates a new space group - the Free Search Group. Now any person, having received a spaceship and having registered a route, can go into outer space. Thousands of people rush to the stars... The romantic impulse is unstoppable, but terrible and cruel trials await young SHG volunteers. And humanity will have to face the consequences of the era of the rapid conquest of space...

Fedor Fedorovich Sviridov is a very successful and successful person, but terribly lonely. Having lost almost everything overnight - the house, the family where his beloved daughter remained - he takes in an orphaned dog named Apelsinych. And then two loneliness met and selflessly fell in love with each other. But a charming flutist appears in the life of Fyodor Fyodorovich..

In this book, everything is very ordinary, and at the same time, everything is amazing. Ordinary guys go to school, do their homework, play, sometimes they get deuces. And suddenly they awaken such feelings that they had no idea about. An ordinary girl becomes the most beautiful in the world, and because of an ordinary boy, she does such desperate things that she is compared to a wild dingo dog...

The book contains the libretto of the scandalous opera 'Children of Rosenthal', new stories, screenplays.

Vladimir Sorokin's new stories are about women: at war and in a cruel world, in circumstances hostile to female nature. , accurate, very different portraits, and united by one: the experienced violence irreversibly changes them, but does not erase, but only exacerbates their individuality.

The collection 'Normal History' includes articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin, written and published in the 2010s. In non-fiction prose, the author does not change his favorite topics: food and drink as manifestations of a national character, Moscow an

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...

Boris Akunin is one of the most Popcornular writers in Russia, the author of Popcornular detective novels about Erast Fandorin and the History of the Russian State cycle. The total circulation of his books exceeds 30,000,000 copies. In a new series of books, Boris Akunin tells the history of Russia again!- A unique illustrated project, each book of which combines completely new Popcornular...

Konstantin Paustovsky is an outstanding Russian writer, whose novels, stories, short stories and essays are rightfully considered classics of Russian literature of the 20th century and have been repeatedly translated into many languages of the world, the author of wonderful lyrical and autobiographical prose. For Soviet readers, Paustovsky is the personification of human and literary nobility,...