With his novel 'Picnic on Ice' about the Kiev adventures of the writer Victor and the penguin Misha, Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov conquered world literature. He managed to find a good proportion of a mixture of irony, black humor, elements of surrealism and modern reality.

'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,...

Два романа английского писателя-фантаста Герберта Уэллса, «Человек-невидимка» и «Война миров», впервые увидевшие свет практически одновременно, в 1897 году, стали своего рода визитной карточкой автора и классикой «литературы предупреждения». История Гриффина – гениального ученого, осуществившего поразительный эксперимент, который навсегда отделил его от обыкновенных людей непереходимой стеной...

Kaffeehaus-Frühling, das von Helmut Peschina herausgegebene Wien-Lesebuch, zeigt die bravourösen feuilletonistischen Anfänge Joseph Roths.

So begins Eve Ensler's hilarious, eye-opening tour into the last frontier, the forbidden zone at the heart of every woman. Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that's rocked audiences around the world, this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a...

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

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...

Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.