Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place 'one of the most colorful in the U.S. 'and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking...

The subject of his new book is perestroika, which ushered in a democratic era in our history. In his capacity as First Deputy Head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and later as an advisor to the President of the USSR, the author was largely 'inside' the events unfolding, closely interacting with the 'architects' of perestroika and aware of the reactions of...

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism...

Bismarcks »Gedanken und Erinnerungen« sind das bedeutendste Zeugnis politischer Memoirenliteratur in der deutschen Geschichte. Nicht als geschlossene Darstellung seiner politischen Laufbahn oder kontinuierliche Schilderung der historischen Ereignisse entfaltet dieses außergewöhnliche Werk seine Wirkung, sondern als große staatspolitische Reflexion und als brillant erzähltes Erinnerungsbuch, das...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of...

This is her first book of non-fiction - a collection of essays, memoirs and reflections on memory and forgetting, music and love, emigration and connection to Belarus through the ghostly identity of a man who once believed that music was stronger than death and lyrics were more important than life.

The author of this book considers himself a professor of emigration. But his life is full of typos, as he himself admitted. He left Minsk for Kyiv, from there to Warsaw, and ended up in Berlin. Why did it happen? How much does glass and aluminum containers cost in Germany? What does an eye prosthesis look like? How to avoid a madhouse when faced with German bureaucracy? What does Leopoldplatz...

Als Kind und junger Mann erlebte Sebastian Haffner den Ersten Weltkrieg, die galoppierende Inflation 1923, die Radikalisierung der politischen Parteien in der Weimarer Republik, den unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg der Nationalsozialisten. Ohne politisch oder rassisch verfolgt zu sein, emigrierte er 1938 nach England. Aus seinem Nachlass stammen diese Erinnerungen an seine ersten drei Lebensjahrzehnte,...

Anne Franks Tagebuch, weltbekannt und geliebt, liegt jetzt in einer völlig neuen Fassung vor: »Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank: Graphic Diary. Umgesetzt von Ari Folman und David Polonsky« ist eine einzigartige Kombination aus dem Originaltext und lebendigen, fiktiven Dialogen, eindrücklich und einfühlsam illustriert von Ari Folman und David Polonsky. Beide bekannt für ihr Meisterwerk »Waltz with...

Das Tagebuch von Anne Frank ist Symbol und Dokument zugleich. Symbol für den Völkermord an den Juden durch die Nazi-Verbrecher und Dokument der Lebenswelt einer einzigartig begabten jungen Schriftstellerin.

Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia’s grandmother’s deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenia’s school protest, to her own parents’ flight from Ukraine when their village was occupied in 2022.

The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women-who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons-and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a...