Businessman Fedya (bottom line on the Forbes list, but enough for a yacht and a harem) is fed up with earthly pleasures: everything that beckoned in his youth and was achieved in maturity has lost its taste and meaning. A kind of mephistopheles appears on board his houseboat - a certain Damian Ulitin with an offer that the owner is unable to refuse. Damian is the founder of Fuji Experiences, a...

About love that is stronger than death. About that light and this darkness. Mysteries of consciousness and their clues. Fundamentals vampoekonomiki. Gynecology of protest. The firm guarantees: Not a word about the swamp! For the first time in the world l

This book is a living classic about humanism, new meanings of old words, media coverage of wars and true love.

Kira lives in the closed northern city of Sulima, where the locals poach. Lee is on a university campus in the US, doing research at the intersection of contemporary art and anthropology. Tanya is in modern Moscow, making documentaries. Unbeknownst to the

Alexey Polyarinov's novel resembles a complex system of lakes. It has cyberpunk, David Mitchell's majestic designs, Borges, and David Foster Wallace... But its heroes - a young journalist, hacker and artist - live in Moscow and resist the onset of a brave

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M

Two school friends, twelve years old and fatherless, are the focus of this story from the early post-war period. Heinrich and Martin grow up without fathers because they never returned from the war. Their living conditions are fundamentally different, and yet they share formative experiences. Heinrich grows up in poor conditions and has to take on responsibility at an early age.

Written between 1949 and 1951, The Angel was Silent is Böll's first novel set in post-war Germany. It begins on May 8, 1945, the day of the capitulation, and leads into the middle of the ruined landscape of a German city. Perhaps that was the reason why the manuscript, which had been waiting for publication for a year, did not appear after all. The publishing house at the time took the change...

Eleven short stories from Boell's estate – written between 1936 and 1951. In this early work, including for the first time a text by the young Boell from the pre-war period, the critical and distanced view of the dedicated writer becomes clear when he writes about his surroundings and his time .

Rarely has a book of the post-war period triggered such heated discussions as the views of a clown, which struck a chord with the morals and lifestyle of bourgeois Catholic society.

The volume edited by Jochen Schubert offers a comprehensive selection from Heinrich Böll's narrative work, following several aspects: in addition to the best-known stories, there are those that are representative due to their subject and narrative style, and others that have not yet been published or are only planned hard-to-reach places. The total of 75 stories vividly document Böll's work in...