The hero of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' journalist Viktor Zolotarev receives an unusual task from a major newspaper: to write obituaries for prominent influential people, although they are all still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a participant in a major game of shadow structures, and getting out of it alive turns out to be an almost unrealistic task...

With his novel 'Picnic on Ice' about the Kiev adventures of the writer Victor and the penguin Misha, Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov conquered world literature. He managed to find a good proportion of a mixture of irony, black humor, elements of surrealism and modern reality.

'June' by Dmitry Bykov is, as always, a vivid experiment. Three different stories are united by time and place. The end of the thirties and the middle of 1941. IFLI students, returning from exile, a mad philologist who thinks he has found a way to influence major decisions in the country through text. There is a premonition of war in the air, which the heroes of the novel both fear and rush. It...

Hurricane Katrina ravaged the states of Louisiana and Mississippi in August 2005. Thus, he left behind not only material losses. Ruined homes or cemeteries washed out by great water are just some of their examples. He also left a trauma in the psyche of the people who survived him. A girl from Poland comes to a town hit by a hurricane. She runs away from difficult experiences, but no idyll...

Two novels by the English science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, which were first published almost simultaneously, in 1897, became a kind of hallmark of the author and a classic of 'warning literature'. The story of Griffin - a brilliant scientist who carried out an amazing experiment that forever separated him from ordinary people with an impenetrable...

Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short, and the light has gone off in his dingy apartment. His only companion is Misha, the penguin he rescued from Kiev's Zoo, when it couldn't feed the animals anymore. Misha is the silent witness to Victor's despair, and joins in his celebration - fish and vodka - when Victor's luck seems to turn: he is commissioned to...

Kaffeehaus-Fruehling, the Vienna reading book published by Helmut Peschina, shows the bravura feuilletonistic beginnings of Joseph Roth.

So begins Eve Ensler's hilarious, eye-opening tour into the last frontier, the forbidden zone at the heart of every woman. Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that's rocked audiences around the world, this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a...

On the sides of the railway, in harsh lands, there are boundless steppes, and here, apart from the main road, only his best friend, Kazangap, lives. When Kazangap dies, Yedigei decides to bury him in the old cemetery of Ana-Beyit - ‘Rest in Rest’ - fanned by the discovery of legends and legends. However, on the site of the cemetery, where many of his skeletons of his ancestors lie, a spaceport...

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...