Motanka is a collection of short fiction by Ukrainian writers about women's experiences of war and the incredible powers that manifest themselves in special circumstances. Fantasy, magical realism, steampunk, and even post-apocalypse; events that take place both in ancient times and in the days of modern war, in recognizable worlds or completely fantastic reality. These are twelve stories...

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

Northern Europe, late 2020s. Russia, engulfed in civil war, continues to send refugees. Former employees of Russia's main propaganda factory and people who suffered because of them are fleeing the new 'Moscow government' and militia gangs. New migrants are predictably not welcome abroad, and some of them are being hunted down. Prose writer and journalist Konstantin Zarubin (Tales of L-skikh...

July 2014, Donbass. A student named Zhanna returns to her native mining village from Kharkov to look after her dying mother. At the same time, their young neighbor nicknamed Valet and an elderly secret service officer named Korol arrive from Moscow - both on assignment from the Russian military command. Something terrible and irreparable is about to happen. But this is not the first time...

'Pets' by Zhenya Berkovich is a prison fairy tale; everything told in it is the pure truth, but all the characters are fictitious and the coincidences are accidental. The action takes place in Tyurmyau, where cats, rats, dogs, cockroaches, a crow and, of course, people have to get along, but this is not a story about people. The main character, Volny Kotan, goes through a series of tests to...

В одной из книг Александр Етоев сказал о городе, в котором родился: «Живя почти безвылазно в нём, я сменил столько районов, улиц, домов, квартир, что город, весь, целиком, стал моим вечным домом. Куда ни приду, на какую скамейку в каком угодно сквере, саду ни сяду, везде мне улыбаются тополи, садовые решётки, фонтаны, урны даже и фонари, чувствуют во мне своего, местного, послевоенного...

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two

‘Земля случайных чисел’ - сборник новелл Татьяны Замировской, писателя и журналиста, автора громко прозвучавшего романа ‘Смерти.net’. Все герои книги - в заложниках автора. Реальность каждого из миров строго определена и очерчена, но это не значит, что нельзя выбраться, нарушить, преодолеть границы.

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

Gazdanov is primarily known for his novels An Evening at Claire’s, Night Roads, and The Return of the Buddha. Bunin and Gorky highly praised the novel An Evening at Claire’s. Critics particularly noted the author’s incredible sense of word and rhythm, the enchanting magic of the narrator, subtle irony, and lyrical depiction of the surrounding reality. — This collection includes two famous...

Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem dreißigsten hat er sein Start-up versilbert; arbeiten muss er sein Leben lang nicht mehr. Aber es geht Heidbrink nicht gut, überhaupt nicht. Und so fährt er eines kalten Januartages los Richtung Osten, in die mecklenburgische Einöde, wo inmitten von Sümpfen ein schlossartiger Bau emporragt: das Sanatorium.

Gerrit Kouwenaars Novelle erzählt die Geschichte des Jugendlichen Karel im Mai 1940 während des Überfalls der Deutschen auf die Niederlande. «Fall, Bombe, fall» ist ein wiederentdeckter Klassiker und zugleich eine erschreckend aktuelle Erzählung darüber, wie der Krieg jungen Menschen ihre Jugend stiehlt.