This novel is about the tragic nature of the human life, about the loneliness of one person among people, about meaning and power of love. Asystole is a cardiac standstill. Ability to love gives sense and meaning to life. This book is a finalist of the National Big Book Award in 2010.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on the New York Times Best Selle

Fifty shades darker - the second book of the trilogy EL James Fifty shades, which became the number one bestseller in the world, captivating readers frankness and sensuality.

A complete collection of Capote's short stories. Most of the 20 short stories were translated into Russian for the first time.

Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego is a Russian writer, grandson of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and a graduate of a Soviet orphanage for disabled children. His documentary confession novel “White on Black” (Russian Booker Prize for 2003), translated into dozens of languages, created a sensation among the reading public, the circles of which still diverge. on...

Sergey Dovlatov was born in evacuation and died in exile. As a writer, he was formed in Leningrad, but success came to him in America, where he lived since 1979. His artistic thought with a visible paradox, justified by life experience, is simple and noble: to tell how people live strangely, sometimes sadly laughing, then sadly grieving. There are no righteous people in his books, because...

The novel 'Say Raisins' by Vasily Aksyonov is a bright, satirically pointed picture of the Soviet society of the seventies. During the years of Brezhnev's stagnation, it would seem that they were already quite 'herbivorous,' photographers conceived an unp

Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th - early 21st century. His stories, stories and notebooks are translated into many languages, screened, studied in schools and universities. Zapovednik, Zona, Alien

The new novel is the story of nine friends who came to the hotel on the top of a snowy mountain. They have known each other for ages, they are successful, happy and ready to have fun. But in the morning it turns out that freezing rain has left them withou

'Inhabitants of the hills' - the story of captive adventurers who had to leave their sinking city and go on a long journey full of dangers. And not one of them knows where it should end. The heroes of the Adams novel have their own mythology, language, customs and lifestyle. They tell each other tales and dig underground shelters. But they are rabbits, not people turned by the author's fantasy...

The novel Lust opens a postmodern vein in the creativity of the largest and most inconvenient modern German-speaking writer of the present, 2004 Nobel prize winner, E. Jelinek. Her themes involve private and personal life, the role of women in total consummerism, the domination of myths of ordinary consciousness in human relations, and the inescapable loneliness of a person close to death....