Mia san mia! Von Suri über Minga und bis Schmankerl hat dieser Kultur- und Dialektraum so einiges zu bieten. Dieses Buch zeigt, dass ein Glasl Bier nicht klein sein muss, wie sich Münchnerisch vom restlichen Bairisch unterscheidet und was hinter Redewendungen wie Gleich fällt der Watschenbaum um oder Grußformeln wie Pfiatdi und Servus steckt. Kenntnisreich und unterhaltsam gelingt es dem...

Der Prozess gegen den SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, der in der internationalen Öffentlichkeit als einer der Hauptverantwortlichen für die »Endlösung der Judenfrage« in Europa war, fand 1961 in Jerusalem statt. Unter den zahlreichen Prozessbeobachtern aus aller Welt war auch Hannah Arendt. Ihr Prozessbericht – zunächst in mehreren Folgen im New Yorker veröffentlicht – wurde von ihr 1964...

The author has been working as a psychologist with political prisoners and their families, including children, since 2021. The book presents children's memories collected during her practice about the repressions that affected their families, as well as dreams, visions, and fairy tales that they wrote to survive the trauma. Their experiences are compared with the stories of women and...

Masha Kaleka (1907–1975) emigrated three times. The first time as a child: her family fled pogroms from Poland to Germany. The second time in 1938, from Berlin. The Nazis recognized her first poetry collections as ‘harmful and undesirable,’ and she emigrated to the United States. And later to Israel. She escaped the worst. But homesickness weighed on her until her death. She never found a...

More trips to the colorful places of Minsk: this time the main places of events are the 50th anniversary park of October and the dormitories near the Mogilevskaya metro station. Even more mysteries that only the unique duo of Yuryevna and Gorkovy can solve. No worse than Holmes and Watson!

But our main character is a city boy. University professor Antos loses his faithful friend, the beagle Argus. At the same time, his wife decides that their marriage has exhausted itself. Looking for a hobby to occupy his mind, Anton agrees to help his friend and decipher the text of mysterious notebooks found in an attic in one of the villages near the Abyss - the swamp near which the main...

Only seven friends understand the quagmire of lies their country has fallen into, under what autocratic oppression and in what fog of vile propaganda people live. These seven remember: the country was once different. And only seven know that they have the only chance to return the former will, the former truth and the former happiness. But first you need to survive here, come up with a plan and...

The fifth edition of Algirdas Bakharevich's opus magnum, the novel ‘The Dogs of Europe’, banned in the Republic of Belarus. Books about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as the Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

The author of this book considers himself a professor of emigration. But his life is full of typos, as he himself admitted. He left Minsk for Kyiv, from there to Warsaw, and ended up in Berlin. Why did it happen? How much does glass and aluminum containers cost in Germany? What does an eye prosthesis look like? How to avoid a madhouse when faced with German bureaucracy? What does...