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.

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.

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...

Троє друзів мусять терміново знайти четвертого, який зник у невідомому напрямку, і повідомити йому про самогубство вітчима. Саша Карбюратор повинен встигнути на похорон… Що це: пронизливий ліричний текст? стьоб? практичний довідник для нонконформіста і лівого терориста? релігійний роман? роман-знущання? «Депеш Мод» тільки з першого погляду...

«Месопотамія» за змістовним наповненням — це дев’ять прозових історій і тридцять віршів-уточнень. Усі тексти цієї книги — про одне середовище, герої переходять з історії в історію, а потім — у вірші. Філософські відступи, фантастичні образи, вишукані метафори й специфічний гумор — тут є все, що так приваблює у творах Сергія Жадана. Історії Вавилона, переказані для тих, хто цікавиться...

This is the exciting - yet little known - story of the making of England in the ninth and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.

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...

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

The central place in the narrative is occupied by the ideological dispute between the heroes of the novel. They all went through the war and the Gulag. However, one of them remained a convinced communist. Another, Nerzhin, is convinced of the depravity of the very foundation of the communist system. In the past, he himself was an ardent supporter of it, he experienced a complete collapse of his...