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

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...

'The History of a City' is a caustic work full of irony, in which, under the guise of a 'chronicle' of the fictional city of Glupov, the author mercilessly denounces the typical vices of Russian society - stupidity, tyranny and bribery of those in power, embezzlement and cringing of officials, laziness, ignorance and obscurantism. Unfortunately, we have to admit that Saltykov-Shchedrin's...

Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking,...

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past, secrets that refuse to remain hidden. While researching a story, journalist Daryna unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army...

Continuation of the book Spy Waffles, which was released in the summer of 2017! A new book from a recognized master of the modern novel! Vilmont's novels are loved for their dynamic, exciting plots, simple and vivid language. Ekaterina Nikolaevna Vilmont is in the TOP-10 of the most published, well-read and well-known writers in Russia. 'The books of Ekaterina Vilmont help to live and treat...

The author is an unusual person who, as if through a magical lens, looks at this world and sees how to change it for the better here and now: here she is spying on grandmothers in the supermarket to become their good fairy for the New Year, here she is trying to support a pensioner- a taxi driver, although you donÆt need to go anywhere, but he has a simple everyday conversation with his son and...

Tatyana Tolstaya is a prose writer, publicist, TV presenter ('School of Scandal'), laureate of the Prize. Belkin ('Light Worlds'). Author of collections of short stories 'They sat on the golden porch ...', 'Day', 'Night', 'Raisins', 'Light Worlds', 'Invisible Maiden', etc. The novel 'Kys' was awarded the Triumph Prize and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.

'All my life I dreamed of becoming a rock musician, but the pressure, adventurism and arrogance was only enough to write texts for reading from the stage and performing them to a merciful and patient audience. But an unfulfilled desire is worse than caries. Sooner or later I will have to deal with it. I have a musical education no, voices too, hearing within the limits of physiological...

This is Love. This is hatred. This is love-hate. This - the most, perhaps, cruel product of John Updike, comparable in the degree of ruthless psychological nudity only with his early 'Rabbit, run.' This is not even a book, but a truly subtle study of the