The twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh and Russian, comprise a groundbreaking survey of women's writing in the Central Asian country over its thirty years of independence, paying homage to the rich but largely unrecorded oral storytelling tradition of the region.

If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe's most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a...

Ein Haus an einem märkischen See: Schauplatz für fünfzehn Lebensläufe, Geschichten, Schicksale, von den Zwanzigerjahren bis heute. Seine Bewohner erleben die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, den Krieg und dessen Ende, die DDR, die Wende und die Zeit der Nachwende. Jedem einzelnen Schicksal gibt Jenny Erpenbeck eine eigene literarische Form, jedes entfaltet auf ganz eigene Weise seine...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Он не обманется: есть в романе и шокирующая, на грани правдоподобия, история молодого героя; и сжатый, как пружина, сюжет; и кинематографический стык времен; и парадоксальная развязка. Но есть и новость: всю эту фирменную Сашину "беллетристику" напрочь перешибает добытый им и введенный в роман документальный ряд - история контактов Наркомата иностранных дел СССР и Международного Красного...

This book is about the bitter and funny world of people who live without noticing time. People who are not afraid to fly and know how to find something funny even in the tragic. A world of old people and children, adults and those who have lost their faith, but have not despaired. The world of people who are forever stuck in that dimension where dreams will come true someday.

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy-it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse...

For his debut novel (Former Son, 2014), Sasha Filipenko received the Russian Prize a year ago. On the first try - a first degree diploma in the ‘Large Prose’ category. So how can you start reading the next book after this? Moreover, the author clearly ‘ma

'The Last Judgment' - a book by Viktor Erofeev, similar to the famous painting by Bosch - is a judgment on all of us, writers, journalists, critics, thinkers, prophets, millionaires, homeless people, Russia, America, Europe, Atlantis, friends, lovers, enemies - and over the reader. This is a worldwide massacre of passions that can shake, destroy and recreate the world from the ashes.

В трагедии, постигшей молодого художника Фонни и его невесту Тиш, как в зеркале отражается судьба тысяч и тысяч их чернокожих сверстников, которым довелось расти и мужать в эпоху, когда расизм в США был еще не воспоминанием, а ужасной повседневной реальностью…В 2018 году повесть была экранизирована оскароносным режиссером Барри Дженкинсом.

Джени Кроуфорд была уготована традиционная судьба чернокожей женщины: не ропщи, не высовывайся, во всем повинуйся белым и мужу. Не жди, что твоя жизнь будет чем-то отличаться от тех, что прожили твоя бабушка, мать и еще сотни тысяч других цветных. Жени полюбила и раскрылась, как большой белый...