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.

Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans....

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...

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in...

Ten years after the divorce of her parents, the daughter meets her trucker father and travels with him through central Russia and the southern regions. The Steppe is a new novel by Oksana Vasyakina, which is a dialogue with her debut novel Wound: the first book is about a daughter's farewell to her dead mother; the second is about the relationship with the father. Returning her thoughts to the...

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).