The House of a Thousand Floors is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in European literature, published first in 1929. Besides being a pioneer in its genre, the book is highly regarded for its general merits as psychological literature. The novel t

Кормак Маккарти - современный американский классик главного калибра, мастер сложных переживаний и нестандартного синтаксиса, хорошо известный нашему читателю романами 'Старикам тут не место', 'Дорога' (получил Пулицеровскую премию и также был экранизирован) и 'Пограничной трилогией'. Но впервые Маккарти прославился именно романом 'Кровавый меридиан, или Закатный багрянец на западе', именно...

Клоны великих писателей корчатся в мучительном скрипт-процессе, Большой театр до потолка залит нечистотами, Сталин и Хрущев — любовники, история ХХ века вывернута наизнанку.В самом провокационном романе Владимира Сорокина, закрепившем за ним титул классика постмодернизма, низвергнуты все кумиры — они становятся участниками безудержного карнавала, где перемешаны высокое и низкое, фантазияи...

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they

This book compiles stories and novellas, written in America (with the exception of one) in the last decade. It's symbolic title That Strange Feeling of Freedom is not incidental.

Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriou

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her no

This book is the funniest (though not always the most fun) book of the last decade. The amazing lightness of the ironic style and the combination of sarcasm with nostalgia made 'Legends of Nevsky Prospekt' a truly national bestseller. Incredible stories f

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

Stanislavov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An ordinary city on the border of ‘happy Austria’, in which they live, suffer, fall in love, admire science and charlatan performances of world-famous illusionists, have fun at balls and carnivals, go for walks and hide secrets in carved chests of drawers. And against the background of the era, which for posterity will become more and...