In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Some of the stories here were collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral...

In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion,...

Dorothee Elmigers bildgewaltiger Roman - eine mitreißende Erfahrung. Wer diesen Text betritt, fällt in den Abgrund unserer Welt und blickt mit aufgerissenen Augen in die Finsternis. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis, dem Schweizer Buchpreis und dem Bayerischen Buchpreis 2025. Mit blinkenden Warnlichtern fährt die Erzählerin, eine namenlose Schriftstellerin, an den Straßenrand, als ein...

The book, nominated for the Booker Prize, literally exploded onto the domestic book market and acquired not just cult status, but legendary status! A novella in which the theme of growing up is turned upside down and takes on features of surreal humor! A book that hilariously and subtly parodies the very idea of ??a happy childhood. The sensitive and intelligent Sanaev understood everything...

This novel is about the tragic nature of the human life, about the loneliness of one person among people, about meaning and power of love. Asystole is a cardiac standstill. Ability to love gives sense and meaning to life. This book is a finalist of the National Big Book Award in 2010.

2033 year. The whole world lies in ruins. Humanity is almost completely destroyed. Moscow has become a ghost town, poisoned by radiation and inhabited by monsters. The few surviving people are hiding in the Moscow metro - the largest anti-nuclear bomb shelter on earth. Its stations turned into city-states, and darkness reigns in the tunnels and horror dwells. Artem, a resident of VDNH, has to...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel Daniel Stein, Translator is a literary sensation of recent years. Huge print runs (and this is about writing a complex, far from fiction), controversy, finally, the Big Book award. Daniel Stein (the hero has a specific prototype), with a risk to his life (he is a Jew himself) saves during World War II about three hundred prisoners of the ghetto. At the end of the war,...

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special...

Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What...

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill...

The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means 'world of light' as well as 'world of illusion'. Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of...