»Das ist die Geschichte des Musikers Johannes Elias Alder, der zweiundzwanzigjährig sein Leben zu Tode brachte, nachdem er beschlossen hatte, nicht mehr zu schlafen.« – Mit seinem Debütroman über das Leben und Sterben eines musikalischen Genies in einem österreichischen Bergdorf gelang Robert Schneider ein sensationeller Welterfolg, der in über 30 Sprachen übersetzt, erfolgreich verfilmt und zu...

Клоны великих писателей корчатся в мучительном скрипт-процессе, Большой театр до потолка залит нечистотами, Сталин и Хрущев — любовники, история ХХ века вывернута наизнанку.В самом провокационном романе Владимира Сорокина, закрепившем за ним титул классика постмодернизма, низвергнуты все кумиры — они становятся участниками безудержного карнавала, где перемешаны высокое и низкое, фантазияи...

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they

This book compiles stories and novellas, written in America (with the exception of one) in the last decade. It's symbolic title That Strange Feeling of Freedom is not incidental.

Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriou

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

Станіславів кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Звичайне місто на кресах «щасливої Австрії», в якому живуть, страждають, нероздільно закохуються, захоплюються наукою і шарлатанськими виступами всесвітньо знаних ілюзіоністів, розважаються на балах і карнавалах, ходять на шпацер і ховають таємниці у різьблених комодах. І на тлі епохи, яка для нащадків щораз більше обростатиме міфами про ідилічне...

The family saga in the short stories ‘Almost never the other way around’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is not inferior to her famous ‘Sweet Darusa’ in terms of skill of writing and depth of presentation. ‘It is not time that counts, but a person in the circumstances of time’ - the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic history of several Hutsul families during the...

Zuleikha is the model of a dutiful wife. Biddible and meek, she has resigned herself to brutal treatment at the hands of her cruel husband and the carping of her despotic mother-in-law. While Russia reels in the aftermath of its recent revolution, life in her small Tatar village is relatively untouched. Or so it seems to Zuleikha, until the day her husband is executed by communist soldiers.

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.