After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour...

From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing and at times sublime memories of her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her...

In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life...

This is a book in which Valentin Kataev cites episodes from his own biography, paints a panorama of Russian literary life in the twenties of the twentieth century in broad masks and shares many details about many famous writers and poets whom he met during his long and eventful life. Among the heroes of the book - naturally, under recognizable pseudonyms - are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yuri...

Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia's best-regarded writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to craft stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Rich in comparison but devoid of cheap sentiment, Osipov's fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait...

What does a Labrador think about when his owner drinks wine and cries? How can dogs help with promotion at work, save from bullies and shake the nervous system of the owner? What does your beloved pet think about your exes? What is the secret of the success of a not very smart and not even the most formidable dog, in front of which a huge Rottweiler trembles?

W tej przepełnionej jednocześnie liryzmem i brutalnością historii McCarthy tworzy obraz prawdziwego Dzikiego Zachodu, który pochłania czytelnika, porywa go na odległe rubieże Ameryki, do Teksasu i Meksyku XIX wieku – w czasy, które wielokrotnie były portretowane w filmach, serialach i literaturze, lecz nigdy z tak sugestywną mocą, nigdy z takim realizmem i głębią.

11 listopada 1918. Leutnant Alois Pokora wychodzi ze szpitala na ulice zrewoltowanego Berlina. Stary świat się skończył. La Belle Époque umarła w okopach I wojny światowej. Nowy świat rodzi się w bólach: na froncie zachodnim i podczas rewolucji, przetaczającej się przez pokonane Niemcy.

Pochodzący z Górnego Śląska Konrad Widuch jest weteranem Wielkiej Wojny, komunistą całym sercem oddanym rewolucji. Po wojnie razem z Karolem Radkiem wyjeżdża do sowieckiej Rosji i wciela w życie proletariacki porządek, walcząc w szeregach Konarmii w wojnie 1920 roku. Rewolucja jednak pożera własne dzieci. Podczas czystek 1937 roku towarzysz Widuch jako „stary bolszewik” zostaje aresztowany,...

Powiedzmy, że Erwin Piontek, 73-letni górnik, wybiera się w rejs dookoła świata. Na starym jachcie żaglowym typu Venus, z wysłużonym gumowym sztormiakiem, czerwoną wełnianą czapką, harcerską busolą w żeglarskim worku i skrupulatnie obliczonym prowiantem jest przygotowany na samotną wyprawę. Ma ambitny plan, by nigdy nie zawijać do portu, przez całe dwadzieścia dziewięć tysięcy mil.