In this issue: Vladimir Makanin ‘The Captive of the Caucasus’, Victor Pelevin ‘The Tambourine for the Upper World’, Vassily Aksyonov ‘Palmer's First Flight’, ‘Palmer's Second Flight’, Zinovy Zinik ‘The Moth’, Alexander Terekhov ‘The Rat Killer’, ‘Happiness’, Mark Shatunovsky ‘The Discrete Continuity of Love’. 1995 Booker winners: Georgy Vladimov ‘A General and His Army’, Oleg Pavlov ‘An...

Pisliamova Tetiany Dziuby

Gilyarovsky was undoubtedly one of the brightest figures in Moscow at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. From it, Repin painted one of the Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan. He was not only a Moscow legend, but also a chronicler of Moscow.

One day and one night. Five stories at the end of summer. On the last day of summer, Hana, a young successful diplomat, returns to Prague from Lisbon, determined that she wants to experience something more in her life and therefore has to change everything. Petr the tram, on the other hand, is resigned. He drives route 22, and tries to find his fateful girl. Wayne, an American lawyer, has a...

Teenagers' popular author Jaqueline Wilson translated into Polish language.

In this issue: Maria Arbatova ‘Equation with Two Knowns’, ‘My Teachers’, Nina Gabrielyan ‘the Lilac Dressing Gown’, Dina Rubina ‘On Upper Maslovka’, Irina Muravyova ‘In Kroporkinskaya Street’, ‘The Forgotten Woman’, Irina Polianskaya ‘The Pure Zone’, Liudmila Petrushevskaya ‘Fairy Tales for Grownup Children’, Larissa Miller ‘Springrime in Vroad Daylight’, poems.

The prose Prisoner No. 1260 was written by Jaromír Šavrda between September and November 1982 during his second imprisonment in Ostrava (1982-84). In the book, he describes the conditions in communist criminals, but also the various fates of muggles or absurd stories that could only be experienced in a country where party idiots ruled together with the secret police. The book was first...

The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus. Plexus. Nexus. Three books under one cover. Sexus is the first volume of a series called The Rosy Crucifixion, in which Miller completes his major life work. It was written in the United States during World War II, and first published in Paris in 1949. Of this remarkable project, Lawrence Durrell has said: ‘The completion of his seven-volume autobiography, if it...