Von einer Zeit, in der die Hoffnungen auf radikale Veränderungen in der Ukraine begraben werden. Als »Barrikadenpianist« hat er die Revolution zu Hause unterstützt. In der Emigration verdient er sein Geld als Salonmusiker - Josip Rotsky, ein Mann unklarer Identität, dessen Name sich auf Trotzki, Brodsky und Joseph Roth reimt. In einem Schweizer Hotel muss er für den Diktator seines Landes...

Dina Rubina’s book ‘White Horses’ is the second volume of the trilogy ‘Napoleonic convoy’. If ‘The Rowan Wedge’ - the first book of the series - was the beginning of the action, from which we learned about the origin of the love of two heroes - Aristarchus and Nadezhda, modern Orpheus and Eurydice, then ‘White Horses’ is the culmination in the development of their relationship.

‘Angel's Horn’ is the third and final part of Dina Rubina's saga ‘Napoleon's convoy.’ Aristarchus and Nadezhda, who fell into love of such strength that not everyone could bear it, were scattered by fate in different directions. Both she and he had to to go their own - separate from each other - paths: risky, dangerous. And finally, the meeting took place, 25 years lived apart, proved that...

Акрам Айлисли - классик современной азербайджанской литературы. О чем эта книга, в которую вошли избранные рассказы, знаменитая трилогия ‘Люди и деревья’ и роман ‘Каменные сны’? Думается, что о ‘сотворении чудесной страны, которая неотменимо входит в наш общий опыт’, и о том, что ‘сказка, взлетевшая над землей, так и не укоренилась на земле’ (Л.Аннинский).

Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he had defended.

As the author states that her book ‘...is about courage, too, about the out-and-out courage to claim what is rightfully yours, to recognize it, to dig in your heels, and never give away to anyone what is yours, your home, your motherland, your heart, your right to walk with your head held high.... The author calls her novel Daughter part of the war effort. The heroine absorbs both what I (the...

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.

Аргентинское танго...Танец страсти и чувственности? Танец страсти и опасности! Танец, который привел юную балерину в объятия загадочного мужчины и открыл для нее двери в увлекательный, экзотический мир аргентинской богемы...Однако внезапно возлюбленный бесследно исчезает - и она отправляется на его поиски.

The Invisible Victory draws us into the realm of the senses, intense, chaotic site of our pleasure and pain. These are moving lyrics of lives at edge of the new world (Dan Reed). Collection of poetry with parallel texts (Albanian/English).

This gem of Slovak naturalism was written in 1940. The story takes the reader to a mountain village. The protagonist narrates the vicissitudes, suffering, and success he experiences as he pursues a love affair, resulting in the triumph of pure love. Peter has been in love with a girl—Magdalena—since childhood and asks her to marry him. But he is too late, because a rich man, Jano Zapoto?ný, has...

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the...