In Serhiy Zhadan's book, readers will find poems written over many years, directly or indirectly related to the railway. Here, the station square comes to dreams, people who look like snails sleep at stations and carry their own homes on their shoulders, soldiers go to the East to defend the country and return to their families. To the soft clatter of wheels and late horns, passengers count...

When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal—and though she...

Language is not just a collection of words stored in dictionaries, nor an arbitrary set of meanings. Language is a way of thinking and a reflection of reality, it is a picture of the world that our distant ancestors began to draw and our distant descendants will continue to complete. We also take a direct part in its creation, constantly supplementing and improving the background and plot....

Famous for his enormously influential poetry and plays, Alexander Pushkin is also beloved for his short stories. This collection showcases his tremendous range, which enabled him to portray the Russian people through romance, drama, and satire. The sparkling humor of the five ‘Tales of Belkin’ contrasts with Pushkin's dark fable of gambling and obsessive greed in ‘The Queen of Spades’ and his...

Грег Хэффли всегда мечтал поскорее вырасти. Но так ли это круто – взрослеть? Ходить на вечеринки, где бывают девчонки? Мириться с тем, что твоё тело начинает меняться, и не в лучшую сторону? Да ещё домашние взваливают на тебя кучу обязанностей. А со своим лучшим другом Грег в ссоре… Пора взглянуть правде в глаза: в одиночку он со всем этим не справится.

The gritty memoir of a former US Marine and Presidential Guard, who, after being unjustly held and abused in a Russian gulag for three years and freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange, seeks revenge against his former Russian captors by volunteering to fight in Ukraine.

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In its simplest form, Valerian Pidmohylny’s novel 'The City' is the story of an ambitious young man who moves from the village to Kyiv and builds a new life there. He is often compared to the hero of Maupassant’s 'A Dear Friend' and the self-confident and unscrupulous conquerors of social heights from Balzac’s stories. However, for Pidmohylny, it is not just a career story. He places the...

Coloring book with traditional Sakha scenes with poems on every page.

In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.

Поучительный рассказ замечательного детского писателя Анатолия Митяева о капризной девочке Даше и одном дне её жизни, который плохо начался, но счастливо закончился.Анатолий Митяев хорошо знал и понимал детей - ведь он много лет руководил знаменитым детским журналом 'Мурзилка', а позднее - и киностудией 'Союзмультфильм'. В настоящем издании воспроизведены известные иллюстрации талантливой...

Die Geschichte von »Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama« ist schwer zu beschreiben. Normalerweise geben wir an dieser Stelle ein paar Hinweise auf den Inhalt, aber bei diesem Buch - so glauben wir - ist es besser, wenn man vorher nicht weiß, worum es geht. Wer zu lesen beginnt, begibt sich auf eine Reise mit einem neunjährigen Jungen namens Bruno. (Und doch ist es kein Buch für Neunjährige.) Früher...