Ostap Bender, the ‘grand strategist,’ is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. He's obsessed with getting one last big score?a few hundred thousand will do, and heading for Rio de Janeiro, where there are ‘a million and a half people, all of them wearing white pants, without exception.’ When Bender hears the story of Alexandr Koreiko, an...

Reading these poems and looking at these photographs, it feels like you've seen it all somewhere else. A small town no one dreams of visiting, with a train station and a bus stop. A fellow traveler with a bag of London bags packed by his wife. An apartment rental ad: a TV always by the window, a sofa, two armchairs against the wall. Little things that never seem important, but only they can...

The main character, Adam Tsisowski, is seventeen. He was nicknamed the Devil not for his bad behavior, but for the fact that he knows how to solve very complex, seemingly unsolvable problems. And he is not a devil at all, but a sincere, honest, responsible and brave guy. The events – mysterious, adventurous, detective – begin in Warsaw, and then move to a noble estate near Vilnius. Adas and his...

What would happen if an ordinary girl were to be made the daughter of a pirate captain, and then thrown into a storm off the coast of a distant southern country, landed on a deserted island and sent to search for her father? And given two aliens as assistants, one of whom is a cat, and the other is a whale (although not quite)?

Imagine is a new collection of poems, featuring texts written between 2017 and 2024.

The book ‘Masquerade’ is a collection of selected prose by Olga Petrivna Dragomanova-Kosach, an outstanding Ukrainian writer who most often appeared under the pseudonym Olena Pchilka. In the national cultural space, she did a lot not only as an author, but also as a public figure, ethnographer, translator, publisher and patron of the arts. Olena Pchilka's multifaceted creative nature is...

The book ‘Mykola Bazhan. Selected Poems’ is a collection of poems by the classic of Ukrainian poetry Mykola Platonovich Bazhan (1904–1983). The publication includes more than ninety poems by the artist, representing his entire work - from our 1920s to the early 1980s. Bazhan's lyrics brought him worldwide recognition: in 1971 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now readers can...