ets of Norway's capital in pursuit of nourishment. In four episodes he meets a number of more or less mysterious persons, the most notable being Ylajali, a young woman with whom he has a semi-sexual encounter. This woman haunts him and he attempts to refind her to no avail. The character falls into traps of his own making, and with a lack of food, warmth and basic comfort, his mind turns slowly...

The surest way to creative immortality is to write from the point of view of eternity. It is from this position that Chingiz Aitmatov, a classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature, a laureate of prestigious awards, writes his prose. His books - 'And the Day Lasts More Than a Century ...', 'Scaffold' and many others have been translated into dozens of languages. These novels became the property of...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

'June' by Dmitry Bykov is, as always, a vivid experiment. Three different stories are united by time and place. The end of the thirties and the middle of 1941. IFLI students, returning from exile, a mad philologist who thinks he has found a way to influence major decisions in the country through text. There is a premonition of war in the air, which the heroes of the novel both fear and rush....

Huragan Katrina spustoszył stany Luizjana i Missisipi w sierpniu 2005 roku. Pozostawił tym samym po sobie nie tylko straty materialne. Zrujnowane domostwa czy wypłukane przez wielką wodę cmentarze to tylko niektóre ich przykłady. Zostawił także traumę w psychice ludzi, którzy go przeżyli. Do miejscowości doświadczonej huraganem przyjeżdża dziewczyna z Polski. Ucieka przed trudnymi przeżyciami,...

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

The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men-stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the resistance-must also submit to the increasingly absurd and...

'The Last Judgment' - a book by Viktor Erofeev, similar to the famous painting by Bosch - is a judgment on all of us, writers, journalists, critics, thinkers, prophets, millionaires, homeless people, Russia, America, Europe, Atlantis, friends, lovers, enemies - and over the reader. This is a worldwide massacre of passions that can shake, destroy and recreate the world from the ashes.

Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years.

Im Hamburger Marschland lebt ums Jahr 1580 Abelke Bleken. Sie führt allein einen Hof, trotzt Jahreszeiten und Gezeiten. Und sie versucht, sich gegen ihre Nachbarn zu behaupten, in einer Zeit, die für unabhängige Frauen lebensgefährlich ist. Fast fünfhundert Jahre später zieht Britta Stoever mit ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern in die Marschlandschaft. Ihre Arbeit als Geografin hat sie für die...

Ein elitäres Wiener Internat, untergebracht in der ehemaligen Sommerresidenz der Habsburger, der Klassenlehrer ein antiquierter und despotischer Mann. Was lässt sich hier fürs Leben lernen? Till Kokorda kann weder mit dem Kanon noch mit dem snobistischen Umfeld viel anfangen. Seine Leidenschaft sind Computerspiele, konkret: das Echtzeit-Strategiespiel Age of Empires 2. Ohne dass jemand aus...

ung dreht G. W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark...