In popular psychology, there is an opinion that, faced with a choice of two evils, a person always decides to take the path that requires the least effort. Is it so? What drives a person who chooses to become a traitor? How to live with the wrong choice?

Three generations of the noble family of Mozhaisky serve the Motherland in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The novel consists of four interrelated parts: the production story 'Golden Beetle', designed as a memoir of the financial analyst Krimpay Mozhaisky, our contemporary; the space drama Mozhaisky's Plane, which describes battles on a universal scale unfolding in the basement of the estate...

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.