Joanna Bators neuer Roman erzählt von weiblichen Lebensentwürfen. Und wie sie scheitern. Im drängenden, sarkastischen, an Elfriede Jelinek erinnernden Ton entfaltet sich das Drama der zornigen Frauen, die ihr Geheimnis durch die Generationen weitergegeben haben. Krieg, Gewalt und privates Unglück haben die Angst und Bitternis hervorgebracht, aus deren Bannkreis erst die Jüngste, Kalina,...

März 1946. In Blakendorf in der Lüneburger Heide versucht der Kriegsheimkehrer Schmidt sein Leben neu einzurichten. Er wird in eine Baracke eingewiesen, die auch zwei junge Flüchtlingsfrauen, Grete und Lore, bewohnen. Die Not ist so groß wie die Verachtung der Einheimischen für die Flüchtlinge. Gemeinsam versuchen sie, über die Runden zu kommen. Schmidt, der an einer Biografie über Fouqué...

Von einer Zeit, in der die Hoffnungen auf radikale Veränderungen in der Ukraine begraben werden. Als »Barrikadenpianist« hat er die Revolution zu Hause unterstützt. In der Emigration verdient er sein Geld als Salonmusiker - Josip Rotsky, ein Mann unklarer Identität, dessen Name sich auf Trotzki, Brodsky und Joseph Roth reimt. In einem Schweizer Hotel muss er für den Diktator seines Landes...

Dina Rubina’s book ‘White Horses’ is the second volume of the trilogy ‘Napoleonic convoy’. If ‘The Rowan Wedge’ - the first book of the series - was the beginning of the action, from which we learned about the origin of the love of two heroes - Aristarchus and Nadezhda, modern Orpheus and Eurydice, then ‘White Horses’ is the culmination in the development of their relationship.

‘Angel's Horn’ is the third and final part of Dina Rubina's saga ‘Napoleon's convoy.’ Aristarchus and Nadezhda, who fell into love of such strength that not everyone could bear it, were scattered by fate in different directions. Both she and he had to to go their own - separate from each other - paths: risky, dangerous. And finally, the meeting took place, 25 years lived apart, proved that...

Akram Aylisli is a classic of modern Azerbaijani literature. What is this book about, which includes selected stories, the famous trilogy ‘Men and Trees’ and the novel ‘Stone Dreams’? One thinks that it is about ‘the creation of a wonderful country, which is irrevocably part of our common experience,’ and that ‘the fairy tale that soared above the earth never took root on the earth’ (L. Anninsky).

Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he had defended.

Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity. One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer’s. Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories. Alexander is a young...

As the author states that her book ‘...is about courage, too, about the out-and-out courage to claim what is rightfully yours, to recognize it, to dig in your heels, and never give away to anyone what is yours, your home, your motherland, your heart, your right to walk with your head held high.... The author calls her novel Daughter part of the war effort. The heroine absorbs both what I (the...

This book is about the bitter and funny world of people who live without noticing time. People who are not afraid to fly and know how to find something funny even in the tragic. A world of old people and children, adults and those who have lost their faith, but have not despaired. The world of people who are forever stuck in that dimension where dreams will come true someday.

The Argentinean tango…a dance of passion and sensuality? A dance of passion and danger! A dance, which led a young ballerina into the embrace of a mysterious man, and opened the door for her into the captivating, exotic world of Argentinean bohemia… But suddenly her loved one disappears without a trace, and she sets off on searches for him. Searches which become more and more dangerous….

The Invisible Victory draws us into the realm of the senses, intense, chaotic site of our pleasure and pain. These are moving lyrics of lives at edge of the new world (Dan Reed). Collection of poetry with parallel texts (Albanian/English).