The novel ‘Ailment’ shows the life of the Kyiv intelligentsia and artistic circles of the 1920s. The main character of the novel is the director of the plant Ivan Orlovets. His life is perfectly ordered and rational: work, home, family, and ahead is the systematic construction of a ‘bright post-revolutionary future.’ However, despite the apparent stability and systematicity, this construction...

‘After the 24th’ is a collection of short stories and rhythmic prose about the war, a record of what we have experienced and are experiencing now. About those who are ready to die for freedom and those who are ready to survive at any cost, about lovers and lovers, about losses so bitter that you want to howl in pain, and about laughter that keeps you healthy.

Книга «Бойня №5, або Дитячий хрестовий похід» належить до переліку 100 найліпших романів усіх часів, це одна з найзначиміших у світі антивоєнних книг. Події твору розгортаються на тлі сумнозвісного бомбардування Дрездена під час Другої світової війни.

What is happiness and freedom and where is the line that separates us from loved ones? Does love have an age and how is it different from habit or pity? Furious, uncompromising blackmail and despotic adoration - are these also faces of love?.. To find the answer and accept the simple truths that life gives, Tokareva's heroes, like us, sometimes have to go a long way of mistakes, suffering...

'There are Russian fairy tales where the hero, some kind of Ivan the Fool, stops at the crossroads of three roads. One is to the right, the other is to the left, the third is straight. If you go to the right, you will find death, if you go to the left, you will meet love, and if you go straight, the kingdom with chests full of gold. Plus a golden toilet. What to choose: death, love or wealth?...

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued...

Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy-despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable...

After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour...

From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing and at times sublime memories of her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her...