The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.

Every time the streets erupt with communist demonstrations. The director of the Viennese police receives a message that at the same time two young states, the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, are demanding the extradition of a certain Adam Vistowicz, the chief commissioner from Lemberg, Galicia. Why did a humble policeman interest the highest diplomatic circles? Will it be possible to...

Stanislavov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An ordinary city on the border of ‘happy Austria’, in which they live, suffer, fall in love, admire science and charlatan performances of world-famous illusionists, have fun at balls and carnivals, go for walks and hide secrets in carved chests of drawers. And against the background of the era, which for posterity will become more and more...

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her.

Small Pig loves to sit in good, soft mud. When the farmer's wife cleans his pigpen, Small Pig runs away. In the city he finds a new mud puddle - but it is not full of mud at all. And now Small Pig has one big problem!

On the sides of the railway, in harsh lands, there are boundless steppes, and here, apart from the main road, only his best friend, Kazangap, lives. When Kazangap dies, Yedigei decides to bury him in the old cemetery of Ana-Beyit - ‘Rest in Rest’ - fanned by the discovery of legends and legends. However, on the site of the cemetery, where many of his skeletons of his ancestors lie, a spaceport...

The children's book classic in the famous English adaptation by Mark Twain, with all illustrations and the German original in the appendix.

Time novel and fate panorama. The 'Anschluss' of Austria by the Nazis in March 1938 and their invasion of Vienna was a traumatic turning point in European history. Manfred Fluegge tells vividly and in detail about the tragic mistake of Kurt Schuschnigg and the failure of the world public. In an alternation of historical representation and exemplary life stories of actors and victims, including...

The story of nineteen-year-old Paul Baeumer, who went from school to the front as an unsuspecting war volunteer, is now common knowledge. But when you read it again, the impression is again shocking: how Baeumer experiences the whole brutality of the carnage and the senseless deaths of his comrades instead of the hoped-for enthusiasm for the war and a short adventure is touching and outrageous.

The chronological structure of the stories written between 1916 and 1939 conveys a precise picture of Joseph Roth's literary development: the arc of his storytelling art spans from the early work The Preferred Pupil to The Legend of the Holy Drinker, »one of the most beautiful legends written in the 20th century became« (Marcel Reich-Ranicki), to the novella Der Leviathan, Roth's last...

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