Diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K. — painful and true records that the writer kept from the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the occupation of Izyum and his native village of Kapitolivka in Kharkiv Oblast. Until the abduction by the Rashists, the inevitability of which he was aware of, as well as the fact that he had little chance of survival - because he is Ukrainian, because he...

A collection of poems, accompanied by exercises.

In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows these families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union unexpectedly implodes, independent Ukraine emerges, and neoimperial Russia occupies Ukraine’s Crimea and parts of the Donbas. Just as Stiazhkina’s decision to transition to writing in Ukrainian as part of her civic stance-performed in this book that begins in Russian and...

Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, gleich neben der Berliner Mauer, wohnt Micha Kuppisch. Wenn er aus der Haustür tritt, hört er die Rufe westlicher Schulklassen vom Aussichtspodest: ‘Guck mal, 'n echter Zoni!’ Micha aber hat eine andere Sorge: Miriam. Sie ist das schönste Mädchen weit und breit, doch leider schon vergeben. Pointenreich erzählt Thomas Brussig, wie im Schatten der Mauer auch die...

Once upon a time, the magical creatures began to compete. But their worlds, unable to withstand that hertz, were completely shattered. The legendary creatures were forced to escape among the people, and the house ‘Wow!’ gave a stipule to the survivors. Now mermen and dwarves, sorceresses and ghouls, giants and airmen live in it. All of them sincerely try to adapt to new realities. And at the...

Written in a variety of literary forms, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender captures the shattered world of a life in exile. Some chapters re-create the daily journal of the narrator's lonely and alienated mother, who shops at the improvised flea-markets in town and longs for her children; another is a dream-like narrative in which a circle of women friends are visited by an angel. There are...

Dieses Buch handelt von Schriftstellern im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, ihrem Spagat zwischen Anpassung und künstlerischer Integrität unter den Bedingungen der Diktatur. Opportunisten und Konjunkturritter sind dabei, aber auch Autoren, die nur ihrer Arbeit nachgehen wollten und versuchten, moralisch sauber zu bleiben. Mit leichter Hand verknüpft Anatol Regnier die Biografien von Hans...

We are used to seeing bullying as a problem of confrontation between two parties: an ‘aggressive’ bully and a ‘repressed’ victim. But bullying is a whole ecosystem, which is influenced not only by the relations of children, but also by the relations between children and parents, parents and teachers, school rules and regulations, school atmosphere, traditions, modern historical events, etc....

В книге представлены рассказы для детей современного писателя Дмитрия Суслина. Это веселые и грустные истории о двух мальчиках-братьях и их друзьях. Читатель узнает о настоящей дружбе, честности и смелости, а также о чудесах и необыкновенных событиях, которые приключились с героями рассказов.Текст рассказов адаптирован (А2), сопровождается заданиями на понимание прочитанного и развитие речи....

First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is...

Um 1800 galt die Idee vom freien Individuum als brandgefährlich. Und doch wagte es eine Gruppe von Denkern in der Universitätsstadt Jena, das Ich in den Mittelpunkt ihres Denkens, Schreibens und Lebens zu stellen. Zu diesen fabelhaften Rebellen gehörten die Dichter Goethe, Schiller und Novalis, die Philosophen Fichte, Schelling und Hegel, die genialen Schlegel-Brüder und Alexander von Humboldt...

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