In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

And those who are not. Live on is a new book by Narine Abgaryan about the inhabitants of the Armenian town of Berd on the border with Azerbaijan. History of the homeland Manyuni, but at a different time - before the war and after. Berd has everything you need for a happy life - mountains, gardens, cozy houses. Residents still cook kavurma, collect honey, bake bread, weave carpets and raise...

История одной маленькой деревни, затерянной высоко в горах, и ее немногочисленных обитателей, каждый из которых немножко чудак, нем ножко ворчун и в каждом из которых таятся настоящие сокровища духа.

»In diesem Buche des jungen Autors, der hiermit zum ersten Male vor die Öffentlichkeit tritt, werden die geistigen und sittlichen Versuchungen eines Pensionatszöglings in außerordentlich feinen und eigenartigen Wandlungen dargestellt. Es ist ein durchaus künstlerisches Werk, ein in seiner Wahrheit und originellen Anschaulichkeit packendes Seelengemälde, dessen realer Hintergrund das Interesse...

Den Novellenband Drei Frauen publizierte Musil 1924 als kleine Sammlung der bereits andernorts erschienenen Erzählungen Grigia, Die Portugiesin und Tonka.

The novel ‘A Darkness Falls on the Old Steps,’ recognized as the best work of the 2000s (Russian Booker of the Decade Award, 2011), is based on the author’s family history. Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov, one of the greatest Russian philologists of the 20th

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

In his new work, the depicted reality itself claims to be a document of the era. For the most incredulous: there is nothing made up here. There is a town where the city-forming enterprise is a prison. There is an orphanage, in the destinies of the inhabit

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s...

Three friends must urgently find the fourth, who disappeared in an unknown direction, and inform him about the suicide of his stepfather. Sasha Carburetor must make it to the funeral...