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).

В рассказах сборника ‘Заплыв’, написанных в конце 1970‑х — начале 1980‑х годов, видно становление сорокинской оптики. Застывший советский быт, усталые, привыкшие к двоемыслию люди, затертые понятия оживают от малейшей авторской провокации. ‘Народное хозяйство’, ‘летучка’, ‘заплыв’ оказываются хрупкой оболочкой страдания, бурлеска и абсурда. Сегодня тема разрыва между словом и смыслом снова...

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.

e author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet...

just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can't seem to...

Ten years after the divorce of her parents, the daughter meets her trucker father and travels with him through central Russia and the southern regions. The Steppe is a new novel by Oksana Vasyakina, which is a dialogue with her debut novel Wound: the first book is about a daughter's farewell to her dead mother; the second is about the relationship with the father. Returning her thoughts to the...

The author is a former spy. The subject of his book is the Russian scientist, Vitalii Vorontsov. As he attended a symposium in Germany, American agents tried to recruit him as a spy.

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).