The novel 'Say Raisins' by Vasily Aksyonov is a bright, satirically pointed picture of the Soviet society of the seventies. During the years of Brezhnev's stagnation, it would seem that they were already quite 'herbivorous,' photographers conceived an unp

Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th - early 21st century. His stories, stories and notebooks are translated into many languages, screened, studied in schools and universities. Zapovednik, Zona, Alien

The new novel is the story of nine friends who came to the hotel on the top of a snowy mountain. They have known each other for ages, they are successful, happy and ready to have fun. But in the morning it turns out that freezing rain has left them withou

'Inhabitants of the hills' - the story of captive adventurers who had to leave their sinking city and go on a long journey full of dangers. And not one of them knows where it should end. The heroes of the Adams novel have their own mythology, language, customs and lifestyle. They tell each other tales and dig underground shelters. But they are rabbits, not people turned by the author's fantasy...

The novel Lust opens a postmodern vein in the creativity of the largest and most inconvenient modern German-speaking writer of the present, 2004 Nobel prize winner, E. Jelinek. Her themes involve private and personal life, the role of women in total consummerism, the domination of myths of ordinary consciousness in human relations, and the inescapable loneliness of a person close to death....

A collection of prose.

The story of Rodislav and Luba Romanov continues. This time they do not forsee the dangerous events in the future.

That is life'. How many times each of us heard, and he repeated these words, lamenting the injustice of fate, the impossibility of changing anything in it. The heroes of the stories collected in this book are well aware of what losses, disappointments, an

You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now, you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school

The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappe

Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hi

It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardsh