One day and one night. Five stories at the end of summer. On the last day of summer, Hana, a young successful diplomat, returns to Prague from Lisbon, determined that she wants to experience something more in her life and therefore has to change everything. Petr the tram, on the other hand, is resigned. He drives route 22, and tries to find his fateful girl. Wayne, an American lawyer, has a...

In this issue: Maria Arbatova ‘Equation with Two Knowns’, ‘My Teachers’, Nina Gabrielyan ‘the Lilac Dressing Gown’, Dina Rubina ‘On Upper Maslovka’, Irina Muravyova ‘In Kroporkinskaya Street’, ‘The Forgotten Woman’, Irina Polianskaya ‘The Pure Zone’, Liudmila Petrushevskaya ‘Fairy Tales for Grownup Children’, Larissa Miller ‘Springrime in Vroad Daylight’, poems.

Interesting book written by the author, critic and journalist Mikhailo Brinikh.

Liberal ideology, legal consciousness, humanistic worldview, modern culture, Western civilization - the only possible and correct? Best? Perfect? Top social development? No! Chance of a different ideology. Excellent consciousness. Different outlooks. Each kind of culture, civilization is unique. Other worlds exist. In this you will see by reading this book.

The prose Prisoner No. 1260 was written by Jaromír Šavrda between September and November 1982 during his second imprisonment in Ostrava (1982-84). In the book, he describes the conditions in communist criminals, but also the various fates of muggles or absurd stories that could only be experienced in a country where party idiots ruled together with the secret police. The book was first...

ets of Norway's capital in pursuit of nourishment. In four episodes he meets a number of more or less mysterious persons, the most notable being Ylajali, a young woman with whom he has a semi-sexual encounter. This woman haunts him and he attempts to refind her to no avail. The character falls into traps of his own making, and with a lack of food, warmth and basic comfort, his mind turns slowly...

When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by...

A fictionalized account of the rise and fall of the Nazi Party during the inflation era. A gripping contemporary novel The Munich museum director Martin Krüger has made himself unpopular. Some people would like to be rid of him. The perjury trial that is being framed against him does not end well for him. But he has friends who try to prove his innocence.

‘It seems to me that I can guess what the ancient chimes, our good old aunt, want to tell us with this discord. Being a Viennese symbol, they feel an inner need to become a Viennese symptom. And they show us not the time of the hour that has come, but time in general, time as such. They represent the epitome of discord, demonstrating the notice and its fallacy, the decree and its...

The scholarly journey through storylines explores the ways in which younger writers in Kharkiv (Kharkov in Russian), a diverse, dynamic, but under-studied border city in east Ukraine today, come to grips with a traumatized post-Soviet cultural landscape.