Raisa lebt allein mit ihrer Mutter Martha und das schon immer. An ihren Vater hat sie keine Erinnerungen. Ihr Name ist das Einzige, was sie von ihm bekommen hat – besser so, sagt Martha. Doch Raisa beginnt, Fragen zu stellen. Als der Nachbarsjunge Mat verschwindet, beginnt Martha zu erzählen. Von der Großmutter Dina. Von Lügen, die schützen, und Lügen, die in Gefahr bringen. Von der Liebe ihres...

The endless Russian flight brings the first wave of emigrants to the Balkans. They have only a couple of decades of peaceful life between two catastrophes — from the Civil War to the Second World War. Each turn of the novel puts the heroes — musicians, writers, journalists — before a classic collision of the 20th century: how to remain human in the millstones of history. And each of them...

‘The Hopak Equation’ by Ukrainian writer Lesha Palkich has the subtitle ‘about a war without war.’ In this parable novel, a southerner, a family man, good-natured, is forced to go to war with the northerners in order to earn money to save his son. But what kind of war is this? ‘The inhabitants of the North and South were one people in ancient times...’ The massacre started by the government...

An introduction to Belarusian intellectualism from one of its most famous — and most controversial — proponents and defenders. A rousing vocabulary, brazen enthusiasm, unyielding sarcasm, and paradoxical sharpness of thought. A new culture of national thinking. The birth of a legend.This is the first reprint in 25 years of a cult book that was first published in 1998. With the author’s...

The first half of the nineties was a time of great hopes and expectations associated with the collapse of the communist regime and the acquisition of independence. And today, recalling the events of more than thirty years ago, I ask myself: “What went wrong? Why were these expectations not met?” I hope that the book will encourage the reader to reflect on this topic.

Opus magnum Альгерда Бахарэвіча, забароненага ў Рэспубліцы Беларусь раману «Сабакі Эўропы». Кнігі пра ўладу мовы і мову ўлады, пра Беларусь як еўрапейскую выспу і Еўропу як беларускі лёс, пра вечную таямніцу творчасці і чалавечую апантанасць. Раман складаецца з шасьці вялікіх гісторыяў, сплеценых у адну. Што злучае вёску Белыя Росы-13, якая знаходзіцца на тэрыторыі...

Only seven friends understand the quagmire of lies their country has fallen into, under what autocratic oppression and in what fog of vile propaganda people live. These seven remember: the country was once different. And only seven know that they have the only chance to return the former will, the former truth and the former happiness. But first you need to survive here, come up with a plan and...

But our main character is a city boy. University professor Antos loses his faithful friend, the beagle Argus. At the same time, his wife decides that their marriage has exhausted itself. Looking for a hobby to occupy his mind, Anton agrees to help his friend and decipher the text of mysterious notebooks found in an attic in one of the villages near the Abyss - the swamp near which the main...

In fact, this book is about people being afraid to live, being afraid to fight, being afraid to speak up, being afraid to be like their mothers, being afraid to fall off a horse, being afraid to admit the obvious, being afraid to break up with a drug addict, being afraid to suffer, being afraid to get into an accident, being afraid to put a comma in the wrong place, being afraid to be...

Eine Halbinsel im nordfriesischen Wattenmeer. Hier, an der Nordsee, lebt Annett, Ende vierzig, seit vielen Jahren, hier hat sie nach dem frühen Tod ihres Mannes ihre Tochter Linn allein großgezogen. Linn, Mitte zwanzig, ist nach dem Abitur voller Energie in die Welt gezogen, hat sich in schwedischen und rumänischen Wäldern als Umweltvolontärin engagiert, arbeitet für ein Aufforstungsprojekt....

„Das Mädchen hatte schon immer gewusst, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmte.’ Cordelia, unehelich geboren, ist eine „Dreivierteljüdin’, ihre Mutter eine berühmte Schriftstellerin und glühende Katholikin. Im entscheidenden Moment schützt diese nicht ihre Tochter, sondern rettet sich selbst. Mit 14 Jahren wird Cordelia Edvardson nach Auschwitz deportiert. Ihr Roman ist die schmerzhafte Annäherung an...