Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the War as part of Himmler's clandestine 'Lebensborn' project, which strove for a 'racially pure' Germany.

Samson Kolechko and his colleague have been dispatched to investigate the illegal sale of meat. How selling cuts of one’s own livestock qualifies as a crime eludes the young investigator, but an order is an order, and, at the insistence of the secret police officer assigned to ‘reinforce’ the Lybid police station, Samson vows to do his very best. But just as Samson is beginning to dig into the...

Мальчика зовут Холден Колфилд, и живет он в повести «Над пропастью во ржи», до сих пор боготворимой миллионами «непонятых» подростков.Холден наделен «абсолютным нравственным слухом» — он мгновенно различает фальшь, с него словно содрана кожа, обнажены нервные окончания, его сверхчувствительность — особого рода радар, улавливающий то, мимо чего спокойно проходят другие. Но он не ангел и не «дитя...

В книге представлены тексты разных жанров, взятые из периодической печати. Темы сгруппированы по их социальной значимости, начиная с вопросов, актуальных для отдельного индивида, затем семьи, общества и заканчивая глобальными проблемами.

ing tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced...

Философская антиутопия Рэя Брэдбери рисует беспросветную картину развития постиндустриального общества. Роман, принесший своему творцу мировую известность.Сенсационным было заявление Брэдбери в 2007 году, что «451 по Фаренгейту» понимают неправильно. Эта книга не о правительственной цензуре, это история о том, как телевидение уничтожает интерес к чтению книг.В начале 1950 –х большинство...

The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z - an uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 24, 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Several embedded narratives attributed to an alcoholic chemist-turned-massage therapist give insight into the funny, ironic, or tragic lives of people who remained in...

Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cartarescu’s Blinding was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, Blinding takes us on a mystical trip into the protagonist’s childhood,...

Unlike the more earnest English Romantic poets, followers of the Romantic movement in Germany valued wit and humor along with beauty. Admiration for nature is also prominent in their poetry, and in particular the dramatic forests which still cover large areas of Germany. Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s ‘Elf King’ and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde....

The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called ‘a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad's heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective.’ Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète...

Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets and Voronezh Notebooks, a sequence of poems composed between 1935 and 1937 when he was living in internal exile in the Soviet city of Voronezh, is his last and most exploratory work. Meditating on death and survival, on power and poetry, on marriage, madness, friendship, and memory, challenging Stalin between lines that are full...

The novel ‘The Gambler’ has strong autobiographical motives, because Dostoevsky himself was a gambler. The story of the creation of this book is very interesting: having lost his last penny in Wiesbaden, the writer, desperately in need of money, signed a contract with a publishing house, according to which he had to write a novel... in 26 days. These completely implausible terms forced...