Der Traum vom Wohlstand hat sich für die meisten Figuren in Maria Leitners Hotel Amerika noch lange nicht erfüllt – unter harten Bedingungen schuften die irische Wäscherin Shirley, das schwedische Zimmermädchen Ingrid oder der deutsche Küchenjunge Fritz in einem New Yorker Luxushotel. Der Roman erzählt einen Tag aus ihrem Leben, der zunächst ganz normal mit den Vorbereitungen einer...

Motanka is a collection of short fiction by Ukrainian writers about women's experiences of war and the incredible powers that manifest themselves in special circumstances. Fantasy, magical realism, steampunk, and even post-apocalypse; events that take place both in ancient times and in the days of modern war, in recognizable worlds or completely fantastic reality. These are twelve stories...

Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Whether through sardonic takes on old Bible myths or homage paid to French-Romanian poet Paul Celan, Stefanescu's poems are laden in subtext, in imagery sometimes abstract and lush,...

Die 17-jährige Cassie kann andere Menschen lesen wie ein Buch – absolut nichts bleibt ihr verborgen. Als eines Tages ein mysteriöser junger Mann bei ihr auftaucht, behauptet, beim FBI zu sein, und sie zu einem Gespräch einlädt, hält sie das zunächst für einen schlechten Scherz. Aber ihre besondere Begabung hat sie zur Anwärterin für einen Platz in der »Cold Case Academy« gemacht. Und so findet...

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

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...