Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova’s (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is a spellbinding collection of thematically-linked short prose. A teacher contemplates leaving her husband after learning that he doesn’t have a soul; a functionary realizes that the only way to survive in contemporary Russia is to go insane; cars fall inexplicably from the sky;...

An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination: Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day a woman, Julienne, appears and recognizes...

One of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are about what might have been but never was but could in theory still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances...

A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two.

In Letter from an Unknown Woman, the confession of a woman who has loved a famous writer in silence becomes a hymn of devotion and suffering, revealing the fragility of absolute love and the solitude of those destined to be forgotten.

In this book, Rubina accomplished the impossible – she combined three different genres: a gothic novel about dolls and puppeteers, a family detective story, and a psychological drama. Little Petya stole a girl with red-gold curls from a stroller. The child had to be returned to the nanny, but Petya had already made up his mind. This girl would be his main doll. Petya and Liza will be bound...

This book contains seven stories about family. On its pages, you will meet a teenage girl in a yellow cap. She will tell you about street sweepers, golden leaf-fish, and how her father decided to remarry. Her story will be picked up by a boy living with his mother and jealous of her ‘side job.’ Then a character will enter, whose heart is stirred by a past love. Love for a girl who already has...

The new novel by the renowned writer and Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Karpov is dedicated to one of the most brilliant and talented commanders of the Great Patriotic War, Army General I.D. Chernyakhovsky. He was loved and respected by everyone – from soldier to general. Decisiveness and integrity, a sharp, quick mind and personal courage, and at the same time openness and warmth in his...

In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand.

In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion,...

Dorothee Elmigers bildgewaltiger Roman - eine mitreißende Erfahrung. Wer diesen Text betritt, fällt in den Abgrund unserer Welt und blickt mit aufgerissenen Augen in die Finsternis. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis, dem Schweizer Buchpreis und dem Bayerischen Buchpreis 2025. Mit blinkenden Warnlichtern fährt die Erzählerin, eine namenlose Schriftstellerin, an den Straßenrand, als ein...

Eines ist klar: »Klausen ist ein Tatort.« Was aber wirklich in diesem Südtiroler Ferienidyll für vor allem deutsche Touristen passiert ist, darüber gehen die Meinungen leidenschaftlich auseinander. Man erzählt von einem Überfall, gar einem gezielten Schuß aus dem Hinterhalt. Wer ist das Opfer, wer der Täter? Darüber gibt es zunächst nur abenteuerliche Spekulationen. Erste Verdächtigungen gehen...