Дракончик Глин и его друзья растут в горных пещерах под присмотром секретной организации «Когти мира». Драконя- там предстоит исполнить таинственное пророчество и поло- жить конец кровавой междоусобной войне драконьих племён Пиррии. Как это сделать, никто не знает, да и не каждый го- тов принять судьбу, навязанную другими. Одному из друзей грозит опасность, и драконята решают бежать… но удастся...

The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released?a sober and, more or less, healthy man?after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up the supplies that are necessary to help him...

Жюль Верн, замечательный писатель, изобретатель научно-фантастического романа, — один из самых читаемых французских авторов в мире. С самого детства нас сопровождают его необыкновенные произведения: «Вокруг света в восемьдесят дней», «Пятнадцатилетний капитан», «Таинственный остров», «Дети капитана Гранта». В настоящем издании представлен один из самых увлекательных романов Жюля Верна «Двадцать...

Ostap Bender, the ‘grand strategist,’ is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. He's obsessed with getting one last big score?a few hundred thousand will do, and heading for Rio de Janeiro, where there are ‘a million and a half people, all of them wearing white pants, without exception.’ When Bender hears the story of Alexandr Koreiko, an...

For the sake of an ordinary human girl, he broke millennial laws and went against the gods themselves. Yar is the son of an ancient clan of the Zavyryukh, endowed with mighty power. But for eight years they have been leaving their homes to escape the inevitable hatred of people. And all because, due to a cruel curse, they lost the most important thing - love. Who will stand on the side of...

After more than sixty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass’s amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar’s midget friends—Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the...

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...

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives...

Married unhappily to a prominent member of her tight-knit Russian immigrant community, vivacious Anna K. engages in a reckless affair with an outsider on whom she has pinned fleeting hopes for freedom, while in a neighboring community, Bukharian-Jewish pharmacist Lev harbors a consuming love for Anna's cousin.

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...

A woman and her ‘relationship’ with the world is the main theme of Olga Kobylyanska’s prose. Is it good to get married happily or to neglect personal happiness for the sake of art? This is the point at which the search is focused in the story ‘Behind Situations’ and the short story ‘Ideas’. A fatal coincidence of circumstances, mystical signs and hypnosis sessions are intertwined with...