Homer the cat really wants to have a real friend! So he goes on a quest. However, one must first understand: what is the most important thing in friendship? Is it caring for each other or selflessness? Or maybe friendship is loyalty? During his journey, Homer will meet unusual friends: ants and aphids, a trailer fish and a shark, a wolf and a crow, a stork and a sparrow, an elephant tortoise...

Never before have Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky written documentary prose - only fiction. We never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fantasy that Oldie is used to. A different language, a different style - to match the circumstances.

Никогда раньше Дмитрий Громов и Олег Ладыженский не писали документальную прозу — только художественную. Никогда не вели дневники. Но вторжение в Украину всё изменило. Эти дневники — не фантастика, привычная для Олди. Иной язык, иной стиль — под стать обстоятельствам. Эти заметки писались в обстреливаемых городах, подвалах и бомбоубежищах, эвакуационных поездах и автобусах, на съёмных...

From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers.

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and...

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In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic...