Hanna Krause war Blumenbinderin, bevor das Leben sie zur Kranführerin machte. Sie hat zwei Revolutionen, zwei Diktaturen, einen Aufstand, zwei Weltkriege und zwei Niederlagen, zwei Demokratien, den Kaiser und andere Führer, gute und schlechte Zeiten erlebt, hat sechs Kinder geboren und zwei davon nicht begraben können, was ihr naheging bis zum Lebensende. Hatte später, nachdem ihr Blumenladen...

Martina Clavadetscher begibt sich ins Dunkel der Geschichte und Gesellschaft, wo das Unerzählte lauert. Schicht für Schicht trägt sie ab, um zur historischen Wahrheit vorzudringen. Sie zeigt, dass Dulden die scheinheiligste Form des Verbrechens ist, weil es keinen Widerstand kennt. Sie lässt uns begreifen, dass wir Geschichte zwar nicht weiterspinnen, aber ihre vergessenen Fäden ins Sichtbare...

Der Traum vom Wohlstand hat sich für die meisten Figuren in Maria Leitners Hotel Amerika noch lange nicht erfüllt – unter harten Bedingungen schuften die irische Wäscherin Shirley, das schwedische Zimmermädchen Ingrid oder der deutsche Küchenjunge Fritz in einem New Yorker Luxushotel. Der Roman erzählt einen Tag aus ihrem Leben, der zunächst ganz normal mit den Vorbereitungen einer...

One February day, an elephant appears in every home. Enormous. Silent. Uninvited. No one knows where it came from or why it's there. Some pretend nothing is happening, others try to figure it out, and still others write about it in the comments. Sasha Filipenko's new novel is about fear and courage, about love and detachment, about people who have faced something greater than themselves and...

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of...

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he receives...

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic amusement park ride accident in an attempt to save a little girl’s life. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by both loved ones and distant strangers.

She is a winner of the NOS and Debut awards, as well as the Andrei Bely Prize. Alla Gorbunova's prose is utterly authentic and attracts a wide range of readers, from renowned literary critics, artists, and philosophers to college and high school students. This book is no exception. Funny, sad, touching, and sometimes terrifying, yet surprisingly vivid, these stories are imbued with the light of...

Mark Neider, a young Ukrainian-born American IT specialist, finds himself in crime-ridden Yeltsin’s Russia, hot on the trail of wheeler dealers who swindled him out of a small fortune back in New York. In Moscow, Mark survives an aborted coup in October 1993 and encounters a mysterious stranger who claims to have had a hand in the recent constitutional crisis. Tasha, Mark’s Moscow daredevil...

A Ukrainian journalist ends each day “scorched by another person’s grief.” A schoolgirl in Croatia cherishes her Barbie and learns to dread air raid sirens more than her geometry homework. A poet imagines the spiritual life of a fish who escapes the hook. An exiled artist recreates her homeland in the shape of a bird. The writers assembled in this volume dream and document and remember, they...

The anthology presents translations of literary works by Series guests that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.

Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Seghers’s best stories, written between 1925 and 1965,...