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      Nad propast'iu vo rzhi [Catcher in the Rye]
          Nad propast'iu vo rzhi [Catcher in the Rye]
              The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his...
              $21.00
              Nad propast'iu vo rzhi [Catcher in the Rye]
                  The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his...
                  $21.00
                  Vstuplenie v budni [Die Geschwister. Ankunft im Alltag]
                      Brigitte Reimann is a German writer from the GDR. Post-war Germany, the tragic division of the country into two parts, a new generation of young people who received a terrible inheritance from their parents and are trying to build a better country on the ruins—all of this is imbued in the author's work.
                      $21.50
                      Vstuplenie v budni [Die Geschwister. Ankunft im Alltag]
                          Brigitte Reimann is a German writer from the GDR. Post-war Germany, the tragic division of the country into two parts, a new generation of young people who received a terrible inheritance from their parents and are trying to build a better country on the ruins—all of this is imbued in the author's work.
                          $21.50
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                              Oksana Behave!: A Novel
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                                  Oksana Behave!: A Novel
                                      When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal—and though she...
                                      $17.00
                                      Oksana Behave!: A Novel
                                          When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal—and though she...
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                                              Maidenhair
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                                                  Maidenhair
                                                      Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his-tory of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son...
                                                      $17.95
                                                      Maidenhair
                                                          Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his-tory of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son...
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                                                              Birthday
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                                                                  Birthday
                                                                      Eight stories, eight women, an emotional multitude. In her short-story collection, Birthday, Jana Egle distinctly straps the male presence into the back seat and lets the female voice ring free. Not to be taken as ‘a book for women’ or ‘women's literature,’ the themes and situations in Birthday present a familiar, yet uneasy, vantage point for any reader, regardless of personal, real-life...
                                                                      $15.95
                                                                      Birthday
                                                                          Eight stories, eight women, an emotional multitude. In her short-story collection, Birthday, Jana Egle distinctly straps the male presence into the back seat and lets the female voice ring free. Not to be taken as ‘a book for women’ or ‘women's literature,’ the themes and situations in Birthday present a familiar, yet uneasy, vantage point for any reader, regardless of personal, real-life...
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                                                                              Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
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                                                                                  Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
                                                                                      Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an...
                                                                                      $22.95
                                                                                      Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
                                                                                          Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an...
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                                                                                              Culture of Lies
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                                                                                                  Culture of Lies
                                                                                                      The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugrešic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she...
                                                                                                      $15.95
                                                                                                      Culture of Lies
                                                                                                          The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugrešic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she...
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                                                                                                              Liubovnitsy Pikasso [Picasso's Lovers]
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                                                                                                                  Liubovnitsy Pikasso [Picasso's Lovers]
                                                                                                                      The women of Picasso’s life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame—until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas, Alana steps into Sara Murphy’s well-guarded home to discover a past complicated by secrets and intrigue.
                                                                                                                      $29.95
                                                                                                                      Liubovnitsy Pikasso [Picasso's Lovers]
                                                                                                                          The women of Picasso’s life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame—until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas, Alana steps into Sara Murphy’s well-guarded home to discover a past complicated by secrets and intrigue.
                                                                                                                          $29.95
                                                                                                                              Advokatka Baby-iagi [Baba Yaga's Advocate]
                                                                                                                                  Advokatka Baby-iagi [Baba Yaga's Advocate]
                                                                                                                                      The heroes of her stories include Nesmeyana, Cheloveditsa, Ega-Bikha, Pele, the goddess of lava and flame, and other unusual creatures. None of them intend to remain beyond the realm of fiction and—though it's hard to say for the better—energetically transform our sedentary lives.
                                                                                                                                      $24.00
                                                                                                                                      Advokatka Baby-iagi [Baba Yaga's Advocate]
                                                                                                                                          The heroes of her stories include Nesmeyana, Cheloveditsa, Ega-Bikha, Pele, the goddess of lava and flame, and other unusual creatures. None of them intend to remain beyond the realm of fiction and—though it's hard to say for the better—energetically transform our sedentary lives.
                                                                                                                                          $24.00
                                                                                                                                              Strakh i navazhdeniia [Fear and delusions]
                                                                                                                                                  Strakh i navazhdeniia [Fear and delusions]
                                                                                                                                                      In her novel ‘Fear and Obsessions,’ the narrative is nonlinear and multilayered, intertwining real and imagined reality. The protagonist, a writer from St. Petersburg, is traveling to an international conference. Her plane makes an emergency landing at an unknown airport. Unexpected twists and turns give birth to new literary characters in her imagination and evoke long-forgotten events from...
                                                                                                                                                      $30.95
                                                                                                                                                      Strakh i navazhdeniia [Fear and delusions]
                                                                                                                                                          In her novel ‘Fear and Obsessions,’ the narrative is nonlinear and multilayered, intertwining real and imagined reality. The protagonist, a writer from St. Petersburg, is traveling to an international conference. Her plane makes an emergency landing at an unknown airport. Unexpected twists and turns give birth to new literary characters in her imagination and evoke long-forgotten events from...
                                                                                                                                                          $30.95
                                                                                                                                                          16 poezdok: Marshruty moskovskie v rasskazakh sovremennykh pisatelei [16 Trips: Moscow Routes in the Stories of Contemporary Wri
                                                                                                                                                              Fifteen new stories, specially written for the collection, by popular Russian writers: Dmitry Danilov, Alexey Salnikov, Anna Matveeva, Grigory Sluzhitel, Daria Bobyleva, Sergey Shargunov, and many others. – In the wonderful company of contemporary writers, the reader will discover new and recall favorite Moscow routes. – The collection opens with an excerpt from a poem by Dmitry Danilov and his...
                                                                                                                                                              $33.95
                                                                                                                                                              16 poezdok: Marshruty moskovskie v rasskazakh sovremennykh pisatelei [16 Trips: Moscow Routes in the Stories of Contemporary Wri
                                                                                                                                                                  Fifteen new stories, specially written for the collection, by popular Russian writers: Dmitry Danilov, Alexey Salnikov, Anna Matveeva, Grigory Sluzhitel, Daria Bobyleva, Sergey Shargunov, and many others. – In the wonderful company of contemporary writers, the reader will discover new and recall favorite Moscow routes. – The collection opens with an excerpt from a poem by Dmitry Danilov and his...
                                                                                                                                                                  $33.95
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                                                                                                                                                                      The Mighty Angel [Pod Mocnym Aniolem]
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                                                                                                                                                                          The Mighty Angel [Pod Mocnym Aniolem]
                                                                                                                                                                              The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released?a sober and, more or less, healthy man?after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up the supplies that are necessary to help him...
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                                                                                                                                                                              The Mighty Angel [Pod Mocnym Aniolem]
                                                                                                                                                                                  The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released?a sober and, more or less, healthy man?after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up the supplies that are necessary to help him...
                                                                                                                                                                                  $15.95