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...

Akram Aylisli is a classic of modern Azerbaijani literature. What is this book about, which includes selected stories, the famous trilogy ‘Men and Trees’ and the novel ‘Stone Dreams’? One thinks that it is about ‘the creation of a wonderful country, which is irrevocably part of our common experience,’ and that ‘the fairy tale that soared above the earth never took root on the earth’ (L....

The stories in the collection ‘The Swim,’ written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, show the emergence of Sorokin optics. Frozen Soviet life, tired people accustomed to doublethink, worn-out concepts come to life at the slightest author’s provocation. ‘National Economy’, ‘flying’, ‘swim’ turn out to be a fragile shell of suffering, burlesque and absurdity.

Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.

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...

Йозеф Рот (1894—1939) - выдающийся австрийский писатель, классик мировой литературы ХХ века. Стефан Цвейг писал, что у Йозефа Рота «была русская натура, я сказал бы даже, карамазовская, это был человек больших страстей» и «ему были свойственны русская глубина чувств, русское истовое благочестие».«Марш Радецкого» - это история трех представителей семейства фон Тротта, преданных слуг...

Молли знает все о неразделенной любви. Она влюблялась двадцать шесть раз и всякий раз — безответно. Но парни и не догадываются о ее чувствах, ведь она очень осторожна. А как иначе? Толстые девчонки не могут рисковать. Однако сестра Молли, Кэсси, настаивает, что ей давно пора повзрослеть и перестать бояться отказов. Кэсси пытается свести Марин бросила все и сбежала из родного города, не...

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

Творчество американского писателя Джона Стейнбека - заметная страница в мировой литературе. Стейнбек - лауреат Пулитцеровской и Нобелевской премий - художник яркий, выразительный, остро переживающий проблемы человечества. После выхода романа 'Гроздья гнева', Теодор Драйзер назвал его автора одним из 'самых талантливых прозаиков нашего поколения'. В конце 30-х годов многие центральные штаты США...

Сергей Довлатов — один из наиболее популярных и читаемых русских писателей конца ХХ — начала XXI века. Его повести, рассказы и записные книжки переведены на множество языков, экранизированы, изучаются в школе и вузах. «Заповедник», «Зона», «Иностранка», «