Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935....

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its...

‘This novel is consistently witty, highly associative, with elements of dystopia, funny and bitter, sarcastic and sometimes cynical, imbued with humor, irony and, most importantly, self-irony, which is the best means of self-defense, will not let you get bored. And as you know, long live any genre, except the sad one!’ Vladimir Orlov

The very first novel of the writer - ‘The Former Son’ - tells about a young man who was injured in a terrible stampede on Nemiza and was in a coma for 10 years. He was looked after by his grandmother, who, in turn, tried to see the world through the eyes of her grandson, to tell him everything when he recovered. She tells, and the reader remembers what Belarusians experienced during that time:...

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...

Ein Klassiker der 1930er-Jahre-Literatur, neu entdeckt: das Schicksal einer klugen und ehrgeizigen Frau als Bankangestellte in der Weltwirtschaftskrise

War is powerless before love. It appears in spite of everything and gives strength for sake. Then you can survive anything: capture, injury, hundreds of kilometers of distance, sleepless nights. Age, gender, fear become just words that have no meaning. And even when love multiplied by two has to be carried through life alone together with the pain of loss, it does not disappear.

The book by Tetyana Trofymenko, a literary critic, or a critic, as she is called in the literary environment, is dedicated to iconic novels that reflected the realities of the time and recorded stylistic and worldview changes in art. Novels that tell us about the life and main problems of Ukrainians from the 19th to the first third of the 21st century.

Is there a place for love and compassion in the basements of Mariupol destroyed by the Russians? Can the gratitude for the time with a loved one be greater than the grief of losing him in the war? What gives you the strength to support people who have just escaped from the occupation, when your son is going through hell in Azovstal right now? And what is it like to welcome a child into this...

This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry—he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield—the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at...

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable.

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist. But she’s always been haunted by the feeling that it...