'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

Winner Pulitzer Prize. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhoodùwhere even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as...

'Just Masa' is Masahiro Shibata alone, without Fandorin. The orphaned assistant of the great detective returns to his native Japan, which has changed very much during the wanderings of his prodigal son - and has remained forever unchanged. An incredible s

Viktor Petrovich Astafiev is a classic of 20th-century Russian prose, a laureate of two USSR State Prizes, the independent Triumph Prize, the State Prize of Russia and others. He received his first prize in 1978 for narrating in the stories 'King of the F