‘Letters from Nowhere’ is both a book by Jonas Mekas and a book about Jonas Mekas. The very first definition that any reference book gives about him is ‘the godfather of the New York film avant-garde’. The fact that this Lithuanian-American poet, writer, director, critic and producer is much broader and deeper than any idea about him is evidenced by his ‘Letters from Nowhere’ - a series of...

The hero of the novel by one of the most popular writers of modern Lithuania, Herkus Kuncius (born in 1965), is a Lithuanian intellectual of the bohemian persuasion languishing in Paris, whose observations, thoughts and comments about the French capital and its inhabitants form the content of the book. The author’s description of Paris at first evokes amazement, which turns into a smile, and...

The collection ‘White Shroud’ introduces the Russian reader to the prose of Antanas Škema (1911-1961) - one of the most interesting and significant writers of the Lithuanian emigrant wave of the 1940s

An introduction to Belarusian intellectualism from one of its most famous — and most controversial — proponents and defenders. A rousing vocabulary, brazen enthusiasm, unyielding sarcasm, and paradoxical sharpness of thought. A new culture of national thinking. The birth of a legend.This is the first reprint in 25 years of a cult book that was first published in 1998. With the author’s...

In the world of this book, crossing the border requires paying with one's own flesh, and sooner or later a summons to the deadly swamp arrives in the mailbox. But ‘Black Forest’ is not fantasy or dystopia, but a realistic reflection of the world in which Belarusians found themselves after 2020. Horror of a man in uniform, the experience of trauma, the loss of a homeland, fortitude and...

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...

Only seven friends understand the quagmire of lies their country has fallen into, under what autocratic oppression and in what fog of vile propaganda people live. These seven remember: the country was once different. And only seven know that they have the only chance to return the former will, the former truth and the former happiness. But first you need to survive here, come up with a plan and...

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk...

But our main character is a city boy. University professor Antos loses his faithful friend, the beagle Argus. At the same time, his wife decides that their marriage has exhausted itself. Looking for a hobby to occupy his mind, Anton agrees to help his friend and decipher the text of mysterious notebooks found in an attic in one of the villages near the Abyss - the swamp near which the main...

'Red Cross' is a story about memory and oblivion. A young football referee, Alexander, Sasha, comes to Minsk to try to rebuild a life broken in half by the will of an indifferent fate. And here he stumbles upon a woman, ninety-one-year-old Tatyana Alekseevna, who survived Stalin’s terror with the hope of asking God a few questions sooner or later.