After a conflict with her father, young violinist Romana moves to a provincial town and starts working at a music school. Somehow, among the junk in the attic of an old house, she finds a violin, notes of an unknown melody and a letter. Who did it all belong to? Who lived here before? Now she needs to learn the secret and regain the memory of the unjustly lost, of the unusual forgotten...

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of...

The days of the young Ukrainian poet Otto von F., a student of the Literary Institute in Moscow, are filled with endless drinking parties with friends and unrestrained sexual adventures. Until one Saturday, the usual ‘goat driving’ leads the poet to the dungeons of the Moscow subway, where he witnesses a terrible symposium of the famous dead. From now on, Otto von F. must save not only his own...

In the early spring of 1919 at Samson Kolechko during a street pogrom, the Cossacks hacked to death his father, his ear was cut off. There are riots in Kiev, the city is again captured by the Bolsheviks, but they have almost no control over the situation. Citizens are being robbed by real and fake Red Army soldiers, on the outskirts of Kiev every now and then gangs of all kinds of atamans -...

As Penny starts the school year she’s ready to face the world—alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early, and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan’s invitation to visit her performing arts school, it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends.

A sad novel full of humor. A guard at a prison camp is writing about his everyday life. The prison camp seems to be a little model of the 'freedom': there's also love, hatred, happiness, sadness - just mixed in a different way, but in the same proportions. After a moment the 'Zone' starts to remind the Soviet state...

By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two ‘unreliable’ narrators: the young man who is a student at the ‘school for fools’ and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for...

Beautifully illustrated by Iaroslav Erko.

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers-boys whose memories are also gone. Outside the towering stone walls that surround them is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out-and no one’s ever made it through alive. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying: Remember. Survive....

'Legends of Arbat' is a collection of incredibly funny and dizzying stories from the Soviet and recent past. Ruthless truth and folk mythology form a brilliant alloy and explosive mixture.