Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of the survivors, Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who fought for their lives under the Nazi occupation during World War II. Through the prism of the retrospect perception as narrated by the novel’s main character Flyora – a boy who matures during the war – author Ales Adamovich beholds genocide and horrific crimes...

The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German...

The Fifth Year follows a five-year-old girl, Marili, through each season of a single year on her grandparents’ farm in the mountains of Austria. Her grand-mother is a quiet, melancholic woman; her grandfather, with his calm, cheerful disposition, radiates warmth. Marili’s parents have presumably died in the war, and she is left to discover-with curiosity, wonder, and fear-the beauty and...

Dmitry Panin is Russian christian philosofer () inventor of the theory of the movement of things and who has been through the Stalin's camps. Panin reflects on the tragedy of Russia, and resistance to the Evil. The volumes contain the following: Lubianka-Ekibastus, Creators and Destructors, Theory of Multiple Emptiness, Quantum Mechanic, Postulates of Marxism and the Laws of Nature, Emptiness...

' (Booker Prize in 2003). All the action of the novel is developed in one room of the Soviet House-boarding school for disabled, where two friends live. As helpless people they are fully isolated from the outer world and taken a bad care of. All they do is talking and playing chess. All life seems to them a chessboard on which each figure has the value. Both know that sooner or later when game...

The new novel by the renowned writer and Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Karpov is dedicated to one of the most brilliant and talented commanders of the Great Patriotic War, Army General I.D. Chernyakhovsky. He was loved and respected by everyone – from soldier to general. Decisiveness and integrity, a sharp, quick mind and personal courage, and at the same time openness and warmth in his...

Джаспер Джексон - профессиональный каллиграф, умница, знаток мировой культуры и интеллектуал. Но его мир - это не только удивительной красоты начертания слов, строк, стихов, но и своеобразная жизнь, которая прекрасно рифмуется с его занятием - и этим же занятием преображается. Великая поэзия Джона Донна как будто заново выстраивает мир вокруг Джаспера Джексона, и бывший разбиватель женских...

Роман "Похоть" открывает постмодернистскую линию в творчестве крупнейшего и самого "неудобного" немецкоязычного крупнейшего писателя современности, лауреата Нобелевской премии 2004 года, Эльфриды Елинек. Своей темой Елинек делает насилие и власть в частной и интимной жизни, роль женщины в мире тотального потребительства, доминирование мифов обыденного сознания в отношениях между людьми и...

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.