‘Nine-Shoes’ is a collection of texts by Viktor Shenderovich, written in various (very different) years and serving as an artistic reflection on several eras in Russian life. For forty years—from the early Andropov era to the late Putin era—Shenderovich has been trying to answer the question of why the country never emerged from slavery and at what point we stopped hearing the warning signs. ‘I...

A collection of stories that stand out for their special feminine irony, psychologism, and lack of taboos. This is prose about finding oneself, about the life of a ‘little person’ in the big world, written in incredibly lively and sharp language.

In your hands is not just ‘The Main Mistake of Athanasius’ by Yugasi Kolyada, but a heartwarming adventure from the irretrievably wasted 2000s, where carefree student life, resort Crimea, rivers of beer, as well as gigabytes of love in its most diverse manifestations, which is most likely just a mirage, are woven into meta-prose. The author boldly turns warm memories into cold weapons, a form...

The heroes of Algerd Bakharevich's novel are Belarusian-speaking children, patients of a mysterious institution called the Camp. Here they are trying to ‘cure’ them of their Belarusian accent and deprive them of their Belarusian identity. The heroes escape from the Camp into the forest, like modern Hansel and Gretel. There, they are not at all waiting for children's adventures. A fairy tale, a...

The cyberpunk literary genre remained in the nineties. All its literary consequences that we see around us are the development of the genre with the prefix ‘post’. ‘Pentoquant’ is exactly such a post-cyberpunk novel, an unbridled and large-scale techno-thriller that follows in the footsteps of ‘Cryptonomicon’ and ‘Avalanche’ by Neal Stevenson, while carrying the scars of ‘Andromeda Strain’ by...

A poignant novel about a man living on the edge—between love and addiction, faith and self-destruction, madness and the search for meaning. – The hero goes through a journey from teenage mistakes to realizing his own diagnosis—borderline personality disorder, which becomes the key to understanding his entire life. – Pavel Selukov creates an honest and emotionally charged text about pain,...

A book about creativity, exploring the metaphor of the writer as thief, spy, and murderer. He ‘steals’ words, ‘peeps’ at life, and ‘kills beauty’ for the sake of art. - The book is set between the 1950s and 1980s in the towns of the Kaliningrad region, formerly Prussia. The history of this place directly influences the destinies of the characters.

Sixteen-year-old Marta climbed out of her boarding school window, walked onto the highway, and started hitchhiking. A motorcyclist picked her up—and that's how it all began. Lost, she spends two weeks in the forest, searching for her. But her escape changes the lives of everyone involved: the motorcyclist, the investigative journalist, the village hunter who sets out to find her… ‘Rurik’ is the...

In 19th Century London, penniless author Geoffrey Tempest receives an unexpected fortune and a mysterious new friend, Lucio. As Tempest navigates high society's glittering facade, he discovers a world of corruption, spiritual emptiness, and moral decay.