Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.

On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never...

Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses everything in Berlin, then flees the chaotic city, where worthless money and shortages are causing pandemonium. Once in the countryside, however, he finds a defeated German army that has decamped there to foment insurrection. Somehow, amidst it all, he finds romance-it’s The...

The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men-stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the resistance-must also submit to the increasingly absurd and...

Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the...

'The Last Judgment' - a book by Viktor Erofeev, similar to the famous painting by Bosch - is a judgment on all of us, writers, journalists, critics, thinkers, prophets, millionaires, homeless people, Russia, America, Europe, Atlantis, friends, lovers, enemies - and over the reader. This is a worldwide massacre of passions that can shake, destroy and recreate the world from the ashes.

(16+) The book includes stories by the classic of English literature Arthur Conan Doyle with one common hero - the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. For high school age.

The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over decades of transition in a country that rather resembles modern-day Azerbaijan.

Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years.

Andrey Kurkov, one of the most fashionable contemporary writers, never ceases to amaze and amaze with the diversity of his talent. The author is distinguished by his signature style, unique to him, subtly combining reality, absurdity, parable, documentary story and Christmas story.

The novel ‘A Darkness Falls on the Old Steps,’ recognized as the best work of the 2000s (Russian Booker of the Decade Award, 2011), is based on the author’s family history. Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov, one of the greatest Russian philologists of the 20th century, grew up in an intelligent family, by the will of fate thrown to the ends of the world - to Shchuchinsk, a city of exiles on the...

This book is about love. It doesn't have a single word for 'lu...', but it's about love. About magic, not fake, reproduced from TV screens, but real, from the family and the root, when you dive headlong into the Ancient Ocean and emerge from there with a fish in your teeth. And about courage. About the unconditional courage to find one's own, to recognize it, to lean on with one's hands and...