The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called ‘a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad's heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective.’ Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète...

Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested,...

Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka’s lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in ‘Little Fable’ to the absurd humor of ‘Investigations of a Dog,’ from the elaborate waking nightmare of ‘Building the Great Wall of China’ to the...

Osiemnastoletnia Sawyer Taft pracuje w warsztacie samochodowym. Pewnego dnia odwiedza ją nieznajoma kobieta – niewyobrażalnie bogata członkini wyższych sfer. Okazuje się, że to babka Sawyer, z którą dziewczyna nigdy nie miała kontaktu. Składa wnuczce pewną propozycję – towarzyski debiut na salonach w zamian za sowite wynagrodzenie.

Debiutantka mimo woli, Sawyer Taft, dołączyła do wyższych sfer tylko z jednego powodu: aby zidentyfikować biologicznego ojca. Ale odpowiedzi, które udało jej się uzyskać, pozostawiły ją tylko z jeszcze większą liczbą pytań. Kiedy za namową kuzynki przystępuje do elitarnego tajnego stowarzyszenia o nazwie Białe Rękawiczki, Sawyer odkrywa, że ktoś w szeregach grupy może mieć informacje,...

When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . ....

Avery steht weiterhin vor einem Rätsel: Warum nur hat der milliardenschwere Tobias Hawthorne ausgerechnet ihr sein gesamtes Vermögen vermacht? Ihr, einer völlig Unbekannten anstatt seinen Töchtern oder seinen vier Enkelsöhnen.

Das einzige, was die 17-jährige Avery von ihrem Milliardenerbe trennt, sind noch einige Wochen, die sie im Hause der Hawthornes überstehen muss. Aber Paparazzi folgen ihr auf Schritt und Tritt. Und tödliche Gefahren lauern hinter jeder Ecke. Ihre einzige Stütze sind dabei die Hawthorne-Brüder, deren Leben inzwischen mit dem ihren unauflöslich verbunden sind. Doch als der Moment naht, der Avery...

Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman in full control of the texture, rhythm, and tone of the text, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds...