On the sides of the railway, in harsh lands, there are boundless steppes, and here, apart from the main road, only his best friend, Kazangap, lives. When Kazangap dies, Yedigei decides to bury him in the old cemetery of Ana-Beyit - ‘Rest in Rest’ - fanned

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...

The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political book, written in direct response to the staggering brutalities of Stalin’s collectivization of Russian agriculture. It is also a literary masterpiece. Seeking to evoke unspeakable realities, Platonov deforms and transforms language in pages that echo both with the alienating doublespeak of power and the stark simplicity of prayer.

Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase containing letters and...

The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men-stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the resistance-must also submit to the increasingly absurd and...

'The Last Judgment' - a book by Viktor Erofeev, similar to the famous painting by Bosch - is a judgment on all of us, writers, journalists, critics, thinkers, prophets, millionaires, homeless people, Russia, America, Europe, Atlantis, friends, lovers, enemies - and over the reader. This is a worldwide massacre of passions that can shake, destroy and recreate the world from the ashes.

The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over decades of transition in a country that rather resembles modern-day Azerbaijan.

Andrey Kurkov, one of the most fashionable contemporary writers, never ceases to amaze and amaze with the diversity of his talent. The author is distinguished by his signature style, unique to him, subtly combining reality, absurdity, parable, documentary story and Christmas story.

Im Hamburger Marschland lebt ums Jahr 1580 Abelke Bleken. Sie führt allein einen Hof, trotzt Jahreszeiten und Gezeiten. Und sie versucht, sich gegen ihre Nachbarn zu behaupten, in einer Zeit, die für unabhängige Frauen lebensgefährlich ist. Fast fünfhundert Jahre später zieht Britta Stoever mit ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern in die Marschlandschaft. Ihre Arbeit als Geografin hat sie für die...

Ein elitäres Wiener Internat, untergebracht in der ehemaligen Sommerresidenz der Habsburger, der Klassenlehrer ein antiquierter und despotischer Mann. Was lässt sich hier fürs Leben lernen? Till Kokorda kann weder mit dem Kanon noch mit dem snobistischen Umfeld viel anfangen. Seine Leidenschaft sind Computerspiele, konkret: das Echtzeit-Strategiespiel Age of Empires 2. Ohne dass jemand aus...

ung dreht G. W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark...