In one of the books, Aleksandr Etoev said of the city in which he was born: 'Living almost desperate in it, I changed so many districts, streets, houses, apartments that the whole city became my eternal home. Everywhere I go, on any bench in any square, garden I sit down, poplars, garden grates, fountains, even urns and lanterns smile at me, they feel my local, post-war Leningrader in me, they...

You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now, you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school

That is life'. How many times each of us heard, and he repeated these words, lamenting the injustice of fate, the impossibility of changing anything in it. The heroes of the stories collected in this book are well aware of what losses, disappointments, an

The story of Rodislav and Luba Romanov continues. This time they do not forsee the dangerous events in the future.

Russian Globe is an anthology of works by twenty-one poets and five prose writers residing in Russia, former Soviet Republics, Germany, Israel, Australia, and the United States. Their writings are devoted to Russia, its past and present, and are examples of 21st century Russian literature. These authors -- many of whom have been transplanted to different countries around the world -- present a...

A collection of prose.

The novel Lust opens a postmodern vein in the creativity of the largest and most inconvenient modern German-speaking writer of the present, 2004 Nobel prize winner, E. Jelinek. Her themes involve private and personal life, the role of women in total consummerism, the domination of myths of ordinary consciousness in human relations, and the inescapable loneliness of a person close to death....

'Inhabitants of the hills' - the story of captive adventurers who had to leave their sinking city and go on a long journey full of dangers. And not one of them knows where it should end. The heroes of the Adams novel have their own mythology, language, customs and lifestyle. They tell each other tales and dig underground shelters. But they are rabbits, not people turned by the author's fantasy...

The new novel is the story of nine friends who came to the hotel on the top of a snowy mountain. They have known each other for ages, they are successful, happy and ready to have fun. But in the morning it turns out that freezing rain has left them withou

The novel 'Say Raisins' by Vasily Aksyonov is a bright, satirically pointed picture of the Soviet society of the seventies. During the years of Brezhnev's stagnation, it would seem that they were already quite 'herbivorous,' photographers conceived an unp

Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th - early 21st century. His stories, stories and notebooks are translated into many languages, screened, studied in schools and universities. Zapovednik, Zona, Alien

Sergey Dovlatov was born in evacuation and died in exile. As a writer, he was formed in Leningrad, but success came to him in America, where he lived since 1979. His artistic thought with a visible paradox, justified by life experience, is simple and noble: to tell how people live strangely, sometimes sadly laughing, then sadly grieving. There are no righteous people in his books, because there...