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Alem Kengerli is one of the well-known writers representing the Nakhichevan Region of Azerba? an. He is famous for his short, instructive stories. Recently, his book titled "18 Accidents on the Train" was published in Baku and then also in Moscow. The readers, even the critics, reacted positively and really appreciated his stories, which are accounts of simple truths and ordinary people.

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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The book contains the poetry defined by such poetic genres as the love verses, landscape, philosophical, and civic poetry. It reflects the views of the poet upon modern processes that take place in our society, the tendencies in their changes, it reflects a complex pattern of relationships of the people.
Much attention is paid to the formation of the system of values among people and its compliance with the values system of society and the country. The poems show the beauty and power of an impact the poetry has upon things that take place, a personality of a person, one's aspirations for self-expression and perfection.
The reader, whom author loves dearly, and whose opinion is always considered, will give an objective assessment of the book's contents. This book is a logical continuation of the author's books that were published previously.

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer?
Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone and box number. You give him your photograph, specify when and where to find you, then sit back and prepare to die.
Murdered, you will be of greater interest than ever you were in life. More to him than met the eye will be the judgement. A mysterious killing lives long in the popular memory. Our hero meticulously plans his own demise, except for one detail: what if he suddenly decides he wants to live?

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This frank and detailed memoir of Sergey Esenin is indispensable for anyone interested in the literary avant-garde of the twenties.

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This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women

Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.

Серия: Virago Modern Classics

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From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia A man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov. As memories slowly resurface, Innokenty begins to build a vivid picture of his former life as a young man in Russia in the early twentieth century, living through the turbulence of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. But soon, only one question remains: how can he remember the start of the twentieth century, when the pills by his bedside were made in 1999? Reminiscent of the great works of twentieth-century Russian literature, with nods to Dostoevsky s Crime and Punishment and Bulgakov s The White Guard, The Aviator cements Vodolazkin s position as the rising star of Russia s literary scene.

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The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. In The Blue Lantern he brings together sex-change prostitutes, melancholy animals and a cabinful of young boys obsessed by death. Sidestepping the world we take for granted, these stories show in miniature the fantastical talent for which the Observer acclaimed Pelevin's work as 'the real thing, fiction of world class'.

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Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'A masterpiece of reportage' (New York Review of Books)- A new translation based on the updated and expanded text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors and nurses, mothers, wives and siblings who describe the lasting effects of war. Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing and the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics

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The head of the family Henry Fellows could not anticipate the outcome of a venture that his wife intended for entertainment. How many mysteries could a simple jewelry box contain? How much pain, fear or secrecy could his family members conceal?
The novel is intended for fans of thrilling melodramas in the style of "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
The scene is laid in England in XIX century.

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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This book represents an author's collection. Touching, sad, and faith-filled poetry will help the readers to think deep over eternal, joyful, and beautiful matters. The people who came to God became the prototype characters of the poetry. They live, rejoice, suffer, and still remain human. The rhyme of the verses is correct, well-adjusted, thus reading is not only bringing pleasure, but also makes one think of many things: about life and death, good and evil, the faith and human values.

Серия: Лондонская премия

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Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to "internment" or death. It also give a psychological insight into the intensified experience of people under varying degrees of pressure and deprivation.

Серия: Vintage Classics

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This book offers a startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015. On 26 April 1986, at 1.23 am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. With a chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics

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"Я - испорченная цивилизацией девушка, и здесь, в пустыне, мне скучно. Как послушный медицинский работник, усердно исполняю свой долг, потому что дала клятву Гиппократа и подписку секретному ведомству, которое обеспечило меня льготами на учебу в престижном учебном заведении".
Постепенно девушка втягивается в дурные компании, потому что любит развлечения, дорогие вещи и украшения. И скатывается в пучину, что заканчивается для нее трагически. Она навсегда остается в розовых песках безбрежной пустыни.

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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It's generally believed that simple interest belongs to a simple worldview, but the search for fundamental knowledge is the prerogative of people with far-reaching plans. Herewith, the first, sometimes, may unexpectedly lead to success, and the second - not bring the desired results. Maybe folks who accept life as a quest, a self-development way (where you can invent and bring into civilization something new and valuable) are right?
As usual, who knows how to work - works, who doesn't - governs, who got none of either - teaches. And therefore this brochure contains only examples of personal worldview and the conclusions made on the life-path.
You may like it if you appreciate conscience, prudence, objectiveness, composure, absence of malice, strength and freedom of spirit, the skill to hear yourself and the circumstances around, and, of course, love to yourself and good people as well.
Perhaps, some of poems written here will be useful to you and will help you to figure out what's to be done next.

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In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy.

Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave.

A game of cat-and-mouse has begun.

Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster.

Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him - and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.

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Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New Russia

Moscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the Terrible to create a dystopia chillingly akin to reality. Over the twenty-four-hour span of the novel, Komiaga will rape, pillage and torture, in the name of the czar he fears and adores. Shimmering with invention, fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit, Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics

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All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.

Viktor is an aspiring writer in Ukraine with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company.

Although Viktor would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life.

But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror. He and Misha have been drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape.

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What are the things experienced by the human soul on the sharpest edge of death or life? Isn't this nothing but revealing of the personality's true essence? The story "Shahid" is an attempt to look "beyond" ... Breathing is so rapid that it is impossible to breathe in ... The heart breaks into pieces of horror. The fate of an ordinary boy viewed through the crushed crooked mirrors of war in the conflict of East and West.
The search, the slow clarification of the one's his true path, the lessons taught by life and love, are in the stories "Lollipops", "Christmas Jam", "Chestnuts", "At the Donskoy Monastery".
"The Weird Man" is the strangest of all stories in this book. The title of it appeared in my dream. Entire epochs of Soviet life are seen through the story of my heroes. The invention, artfully connected with another invention... You would never guess what happened for real truth in it, in this story. I wish you a risky and unpredictable journey to other people's stories - in my book "Disrupted Breath".

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a poker game. The Devil accepts the invitation and unsurprisingly Rubashov loses.

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Empire V is a post-modern, timely, whimsical and satirical story about a young man who involuntary joins a revolutionary cult . . .

Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong.

He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world has been a facade - one which the mysterious Brahma is about to tear away.

A stunning novel about the real world, and about the hidden channels of power behind the scenes, Empire V is a post-modern satirical novel exploring the cults and corruption of politics, banking and power. And not only are these cults difficult to join - it turns out they may be impossible to leave . . .

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Жизнь человеческая...
Вязко-зыбкие, словно сновидения, Путешествия в подсознании в поисках ответа на самый извечный и неразрешимый для всех нас вопрос...
Сюрреалистическая тема "Katharsis" написана в декабре 1993 года в Мюнхене, ФРГ, тема "Где ты, моя Родина, Боль моя и Свет?.." в 2000 году в реанимационном отделении больницы Атырау, Казахстан.

Серия: Лондонская премия

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Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to violence and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation pit but an immense grave.

Серия: Vintage Future

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"...Передо мной было сердце дома - письменный стол хозяина. Свет зеленого стеклянного абажура настольной лампы приятно успокаивал. Но я все равно долго собиралась с духом, прежде чем решилась открыть самый большой ящик стола с врезным замком, из которого торчал ключ вместе со связкой других ключей. Тайна может вот-вот раскрыться. Страх раскрытия тайны был еще хуже, чем страх перед неизвестностью..."

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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In the last days of the Third Reich, Hitlers astrologer gives rise to a secret operation to transport... the souls of Hitler and Eva Braun. They will remain in a secret shelter until young bodies are found for "relocation". And... a new round of conquering world domination will begin.
Hitler, deprived of his soul, gives an ominous order to flood the Berlin subway. This terrible sacrifice is necessary to maintain the existence of Hitler's soulless body. Meanwhile, the bodies of Hitler and Eve intend to hook up psychics from the CIA. And on the way of the cargo "069" there are psychics of the Russian GRU who will not allow rewriting the bloody history.

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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When Kolia moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of War and Peace. Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolia sets out to find out more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, more specifically the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby milk factory, Kolia exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, and so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea and traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon The Good Angel of Death is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike.

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This title is translated and with an introduction by Robert Chandler. Moscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier". Beautiful, passionate, Moscow Chestnova bears her captial's name, and seeks the happiness it promises. She flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her, on a quest for the better life. This anarchic satire is accompanied by related works - short stories, an essay and a screenplay - and through Robert Chandler's acclaimed new translations Platonov's extraordinary prose and original vision can at last be experienced in full.

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A Russian cyberthriller that has been a huge hit in Russia and now looks set to be an international cult novel.
26-year-old Vadim hates his job in the PR department of Latvia's biggest bank. He spends his time playing his favourite shoot-em-up computer game, 'Headcrusher', and composing insulting emails about his bosses. When his manager catches him writing one such email, Vadim is so overcome with rage that he kills him. Then he kills the bank's security guard too, because he has seen him disposing of the body. Bumping people off comes to seem as easy as playing a computer game (or moving money between bank accounts) and Vadim embarks on a killing spree, putting paid to anyone who annoys him. But, as he becomes embroiled in the murky activities of the corrupt bank, which is laundering money for Mafia criminals, he starts to lose touch with reality. Where does truth end and fantasy begin - and is life just one big computer game?
This high-octane debut novel has the energy of a Tarantino film, the game-playing of The Matrix and the philosophical quirkiness of Fight Club. Nothing quite like it has come out of Russia before. It has been a major bestseller there and has been picked up by publishers around the world.

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To pick the juiciest apple, you need to go to the apple orchard. In order to taste the sweetest grapes, you need to go to the vineyard. If you want to pick the most fragrant orange, you need to go to the plantation with citrus plants, right? But everything is easier when they bring you a basket of selected fruits. This book in a sense resem bles the very basket of the most valuable thoughts.
There are a lot of motivational books that teach you how to succeed, as well as leadership concepts. What is the difference between the book that we intend to offer you? The fact that you have to get acquainted with the conclusions of the author, who motivated people for many years as a speaker, at the same time instructing his audience as a coach and professor of economics. The conclusions reached by the author after numerous experiments can be useful to hundreds of people. In this book you can also read valuable sayings from the best motivational books on success and leadership.
In a word, we offer you, dear readers, a collection of valuable thoughts!

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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Originally written in Russian.
Translated by Tibor Kramer.
First edition.
Valery Pekarovskiy, born in 1949.
Higher law education. He has three sons, four grandchildren.

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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This wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments - many of which the author called 'incidents' - that tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death. An outlaw classic banned by Soviet censors until the 1980s, Incidences vividly conveys the precarious nature of life in Stalin's Russia. Writing in the 1920s as one of a group called the Society for Real Art, Kharms was first arrested in 1931, and told that he could only publish writing for children. Irrepressible, he was sent to the gulag in 1941 and died of starvation in a prison hospital a year later. With this new edition of Incidences , we can rediscover a Russian writer whose bold writing and tragic death are an urgent reminder of the deranged spirit of his times.

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The first English translation of the novel Kashira Highway, a fine example of Russian "psychodelic realism." Andrei Monastyrski s semi-autobiographical novel Kashira Highway is set in the early 1980s and tells the story of an artist s nervous breakdown, juxtaposing the gray world of Brezhnev era Moscow and the lurid landscape of the protagonist s imagination. Translated by Andrew Bromfield and with new illustrations by Pavel Pepperstein.
Andrei Monastyrski (b. 1949, Petsamo, Russia) lives and works in Moscow. He is the leader of the Moscow Conceptual School. One of the founders of the group Collective Actions (1976 ), he became its chief ideologist and the author of most of its actions. Together with Vadim Zakharov and Yuri Leiderman, he participated in the groups Kapiton (2008 2010) and Corbusier (2009 2010). Solo exhibitions include: Empty Zones: Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions, Russian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Out of Town: Andrei Monastyrski & Collective Actions, e-flux, New York (2011); Andrei Monastyrski, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2010); and Earthworks, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow (2005). Group exhibitions include: Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2014); 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); Documenta 12, Kassel (2007); and 50th Venice Biennale (2003). He has been awarded the Andrei Bely Prize (Russia, 2003) and the Innovation Prize (Russia, 2009). A collection of Monastyrski s poetry and other writing in English translation, Elementary Poetry, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2019.

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"Knives" is a detective story. Three attempts were made to kill Clara Yurievna, a tax officer, daughter of a wealthy businessman, bride of a famous professor. The method of murder was all the same, pretty strange for our times. The author reveals a wide range of characters, day-to-day rules and life situations.

Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова

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I'm Veronika Mahmurova, I'm a beginner writer, I live in Estonia, Tallinn. I decided to write my first book at the age of 21, as I always dreamed about it and wanted people all over the world to read my work. I wrote my first novel when I was in America, when I studied on screenwriting program. Also I love to write about love story, so I decided to create my characters to describe my vision of what a love story could be.
My book is about young writer Jennifer whose dream is to find a mutual love, also about her new life, and about how life could change and how suddenly dreams could come true. I believe in destiny, so therefore my book shows how through time could connect two people even if circumstances did not allow them to be together. I hope you enjoy reading my novel.

Серия: Читаем на английском

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Two boys running away from a bleak reformatory begin the adventure of a lifetime, escaping despair, experiencing freedom and happiness but also running up against the cruel complexities of everyday life.

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation. Posing as father and son, they concentrate on discovering the happiness that is so unfamiliar to them both. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love.

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Indistinguishable from normal people but possessed of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each other owes allegiance either to the Dark, or to the Light. While on holiday in Scotland, visiting 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered.

Серия: Night Watch

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Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph

'Astonishing... Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian

Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich

What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century.
Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics

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WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016*
Fifteenth-century Russia
It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone. But this is no ordinary journey: wandering across plague-ridden Europe, offering his healing powers to all in need, he travels through ages and countries, encountering a rich tapestry of wayfarers along the way. Accosted by highwaymen, lynched in Yugoslavia and washed overboard at sea, he eventually reaches Jerusalem, only to find his greatest challenge is yet to come.
Winner of two of the biggest literary prizes in Russia, Laurus is a remarkably rich novel about the eternal themes of love, loss, self-sacrifice and faith, from one of the country's most experimental and critically acclaimed novelists.

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The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century.
The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.
Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war.
Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

Серия: Vintage Classic Russians Series

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Yulia Tskhvediani has a background in economic planning and holds a doctorate in economics. She started writing several years ago, and her literary endeavors have not passed by unnoticed. Tskhvediani has been invited to participate in the Educational Bridge Project's twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth annual Russian-American Festivals in Moscow and Boston.
Whatever Tskhvediani is writing about - love and disappointments, the destinies of her characters, her childhood, or her numerous travel adventures - her work is permeated with sincerity, kindness, irony, selfreflection, and joie de vivre. The author is an astute observer of our occasionally paradoxical reality.
Tskhvediani is especially grateful to the two people who helped her most in writing this book: her husband, Alexander Babkov, and her friend Levon Babayan.

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Роман Анатолия Изотова на английском языке.

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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These two novels by Debut Prize finalists present typical provincial towns in central Russia and a gallery of modern-day types: radically minded youths, ruthless thugs, drunken intellectuals, the local elite, and failed fortune seekers. The heroes are yearning for faraway glamorous cities and trying to find their identities. They suffer through various weird misadventures, but for many readers their tales may be a survival guide. A vivid portrait of the younger generation in today's Russia: stunned by their first painful contacts with harsh reality. The authors will present the book at BEA 2011 in New York, NY.

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On December 31, when only some hours were left to the New Year the police patrols who were on night shift took anybody whom they doubted to the police department. The people who were caught by the police belonged to different age, sex and groups. A woman who had been forgotten by her relatives... A wan who got the wound of love.. Another man who couldn't find his place in life... A young guy who was the victim of false love. A young girl who was deceived for her naivety. Though they belong to different age, to different groups of the society, there is one thing that unites them: GRIEF... All of them are chased by the society, but none of them broke the law. Different from the others they are sure that a new truth is the child of the old lie. And they made up mind to gather all sorrowful people around them. Let them share their grief which they can't bear when they are lonely.

Серия: Лондонская премия

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A chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction and the basis of three bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, and Metro: Exodus
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.
More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.
A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price.
VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.

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The basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. A year after the events of METRO 2033 the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro. Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe.

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"Minus depicts post-Soviet Siberians as people with dormant inner power languishing in the cage of their circumstances. The narrator, a young man named Roman, and his friends are the losers in the new Russian society. Their life is shown with painful veracity." - Die Welt

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Автор представляет на читательский суд свои мысли, высказывания, определяющие миссию человека в земной жизни, дает своё видение главных аспектов формирования человека. Сделаны попытки доказать, что наша жизнь всецело зависит от нас самих, от того, каковы мы по натуре, от нашего понимания предназначения человека, его помыслов и поступков, характера, дарований. Важно также желание непрерывно совершенствоваться, преодолевать и побеждать.
Автор призывает глубже вникать в законы созидания, ценить общечеловеческие, ценности, быть далекими от суеты, не забывать о главном и Вечном.

Серия: Лондонская премия

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Part of the "Night Watch" trilogy, this book follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. Until he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce, and the whole city.

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The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. An estimated one million civilians died, most of them from cold and starvation. Lydia Ginzburg, a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose 'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule), survived. Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she distilled the collective experience of life under siege. Through painful depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period, Ginzburg created a paean to the dignity, vitality and resilience of the human spirit. This original translation by Alan Myers has been revised and annotated by Emily van Buskirk. This edition includes 'A Story of Pity and Cruelty', a recently discovered documentary narrative translated into English for the first time by Angela Livingstone.

Серия: Vintage Classics

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Victor Pelevin's unforgettable first novel, Omon Ra, is the story of a young man who always dreamt of becoming the ultimate Russian hero, a cosmonaut in the mould of Yuri Gagarin. Enrolling as a cadet at the Zaraisk flying school, it is not long before he is chosen to be the sole pilot of a mission - to the dark side of the moon.

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'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin

This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something?

'On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck' The New York Times

Серия: Penguin Science Fiction

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In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, the harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
First published in 1962, this novel is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is both a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man's will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.

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Viktor - last seen in "Death & The Penguin" fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity.

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'Now we make you ugly, ' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'

On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when the black SUVs roll into town, Ladydi and her friends hide in the warren of holes scattered across the mountain, safely out of sight. Because the stolen girls don't come back.

Ladydi is determined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to survive. But she soon finds that the drug cartels have eyes everywhere, and the cities are no safer than the mountains.

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Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fine health. Yet two years later Bunin undergoes a heart transplant, with very serious repercussions... Rewind to the early '90s; the Soviet Union has crumbled and in the midst of a new independent Ukraine struggling to find its feet ayoung Sergey Pavlovich Bunin is on the make. Casting aside a career as a catering manager he enters the political fray and begins the long and precarious journey to the top, at the same time looking after his impoverished mother and enfeebled brother. Spanning forty years, The President's Last Love is Kurkov's most ambitious work to date, and delivers a intricately woven and often hilarious political satire on life before and after the Iron Curtain. A colossus of a novel concerning love, power, corruption, lies and potatoes.

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Сергей Донатович Довлатов (1941-1990) - один из наиболее читаемых и издаваемых русских писателей. Его произведения переведены на многие языки. Повесть "Заповедник" (1983) справедливо называют одним из самых значимых произведений прозаика. Как и в большинстве произведений Довлатова, прототипом главного героя является автор, работавший в музее-заповеднике А. С. Пушкина "Михайловское" в 1976-1977 годах.
Рассказчик - писатель, который на лето приезжает в Пушкинские Горы поработать экскурсоводам. Деньги, жена, творчество и государство - вот что вызывает внутренние противоречия у главного героя. Однако эти же проблемы были острыми для Пушкина, который жил в поселке "Михайловское" 150 лет назад.
Читателю книги предоставляется возможность познакомиться с русской литературой на английском языке. Издание снабжено комментариями и словарем.

Серия: Русская современная проза на англ. языке

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Then came the evening.
The wind ceased at sunset.
The familiar streets gained a sort of twilight mystery, while your soul felt an easy anxiety, as the heart was visited by sweet pain that accompanies the first act of falling in love, when you don't know what will be the upshot of it all.
Please postpone your engagements, dear reader. I suggest you recollect how it happens. In the story called "The Queen of the Night", you will fall in love with a young astrologer and will save an enchanted maiden soul from immortality.
I'll take you along the invisible boundary between worlds and you'll see which of them the heroine of the second story would choose.
Next, you manage to penetrate into the castle of an old witch; before your very eyes, Lorinde, wearing a live cloak, will fly from trembling birds , ah, why I'm I telling you the story - pour yourself a cup of tea, light up the old family table lamp - what have you got? A green glass or with lacy old shade, and may be you have such with a lamp in the form of a candle fame and crystal icy suspensions? Sit comfortably on the chair, open the book and enjoy the vague mist of my stories.

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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The books by Elena Fedorova always represent an easy, confidential conversation about life, love, and friendship - about everything, which is on everyone's mind, which is close and clear to every person.
Everything written by the author sounds in an integrated manner. Elena persistently continues her way - her search, her success.
Just try not to skim the novel but to think about every word, every phrase. Perhaps, you will discov er something new and unknown.

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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Сборник русских романсов и песен на английском языке писателя и переводчика Бориса Вульфовича - это искренний разговор с читателем о богатстве русской вокальной культуры, о величии русской души, о подвиге нашего народа в Великой Отечественной войне. В сборник вошли 75 переводов классических романсов, песен о Великой Отечественной войне и современной лирики - по 25 опусов в каждом разделе. Опус состоит из стиха-оригинала, его перевода на английский язык и нот для фортепиано, которые взяты из Сети. Все переводы рифмованы и сохраняют мелодии и ритмы оригиналов. В приложении дается краткая справка на двух языках о каждом поэте и композиторе - авторах романса или песни.

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Two centuries of short stories by twenty-five titans of Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Tatyana Tolstaya and Svetlana Alexievich, in the beautifully designed Pocket Classics series.

Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich. There is no similar one-volume collection of the best of the Russian greats in English. Women writers are particularly well represented and predominate in the last fifty years; also included is a story by the recently rediscovered Teffi, who was widely hailed a century ago in Russia as 'the female Chekhov'.

Серия: Everyman`s Library Pocket Classics

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Damilola Karpov is a pilot. Living in Byzantium, a huge sky city floating above the land of Urkaine, he makes his living as a drone pilot - capable of being a cameraman who records the events unfolding in Urkaine or, with the weapons aboard his drone, of making a newsworthy event happen for his employers: 'Big Byz Media'.

His recordings are known as S.N.U.F.F.: Special Newsreel/Universal Feature Film.

S.N.U.F.F. is a superb post-apocalyptic novel, exploring the conflict between the nation of Urkaine, its causes and its relationship with the city 'Big Byz' above. Contrasting poverty and luxury, low and high technology, barbarity and civilisation - while asking questions about the nature of war, the media, entertainment and humanity.

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The novel is based on the real events that took place in Buryatia in 1986.
In the taiga, poachers killed the bear-cub in the thrill of the race. The thunderous echo was still heard, and she-bear rushed out from the nearby bushes. And men fired again. But ignoring the wounds, she swept away the murderers of her bear-cub Two blows Two deaths
The loss of the bear-cub, physical wounds, pain, and rage made she-bear seek vengeance. As the result, thirteen men were dead
The story took place in the forestry of Klyuevka. In connection with the appearance of the bear-killer in the region, the local forester decided to conduct a large-scale raid. He gathered a group of experienced hunters, headed by the senior hunter Mikhail Svetlov, and set them the task to kill the wounded she-bear. While Mikhail was in the forest and prepared traps for the beast, a tragedy happened in his family. His wife gave birth to a baby Unfortunately, the baby was dead. After learning the terrible news, Mikhail refused to participate in the raid, realizing that he and she-bear had experienced the same grief. And he could not take the life of she-bear of the mother, as she had become a killer only because of the people.
But nobody could predict that the fate of the unhappy young family and she-bear would be unexpectedly connected. And the outcome was soon to come

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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Can we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?
From the winner of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize, and the author of the multi-award winning Laurus, comes a sweeping novel that takes readers on a fascinating journey through one of the most momentous periods in Russian history.
What really happened to General Larionov of the Imperial Russian Army, who somehow avoided execution by the Bolsheviks? He lived out his long life in Yalta leaving behind a vast heritage of undiscovered memoirs. In modern day Russia, a young student is determined to find out the truth.
Solovyov and Larionov is a ground-breaking and gripping literary detective novel from one of Russia's greatest contemporary writers.

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This anthology presents a new generation of authors from various parts of Russia who never lived in the Soviet Union and therefore free of the Soviet legacy. Theirs is a fundamentally new way of thinking and seeing the world. These voices from the future deserve your attention.
Compiled by Olga Slavnikova

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Three breath-taking non-fiction stories that you'll never forget.
The Stolen Life of Okada Yoshiko.
The untold story of how a courageous japanese actress survived in Stalin's Russia. In 1938 the japanese actress and former "star" of the silent film Okada Yoshiko illegally left Japan with the man she loved most of all Sugimoto Ryokich1. In a year and nine months Sugimoto was executed by shooting and Okada was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor...
"...And Never the Twain Shall Meet...".
In 1935 a Moscow-based correspondent of japanese newspaper fell madly in love with russian girl and made up his mind to "smuggle" her to Japan... in a trunk.
Betrayal.
In 1902 a young modest girl Maria Prove moved from Geneva to Russia hoping to get a good
job. In this country she met her first love, got married and gave birth to a daughter. At the
age of 52, basing on information against her, she was taken into custody at Lubianka prison,
charged with espionage against the Soviet State and in six months was transported under guard to a distant Siberian prison camp (GULAG).

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A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelists
Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is transforming the villagers into zombies. He has with him a vaccine which will prevent the spread of this epidemic, but a terrible blizzard turns his journey into the stuff of nightmare. A trip that should take hours turns into a metaphysical odyssey, in which he encounters strange beasts, apparitions, hallucinations and dangerous fellow men. Trapped in this existential storm, Sorokin's characters fight their way through a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's 19th-century Russia as it does to near-future, post-apocalyptic literature. Fantastical, comic and richly drawn, The Blizzard at once answers to the canon of Russian writers and makes a fierce statement about life in contemporary Russia.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics

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The book describes the events that took place in Thailand and affected not only the present but also the period of Siam 300 years ago, as well as tsunami. The heroine goes through the drama of her husband's death. Suddenly, she meets a long-time friend, who was believed dead. Now he is engaged in the military service in the United States.
The modern story is spiced with fantastic description of Thailand and its population, as well as Siamese cats, which are one of the symbols of this country.

Серия: Nabokov Prize Library

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Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author

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They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue which they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror. It's wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown. Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide. "The Helmet of Horror" is structured according to the internet exchanges of the twenty first century, radically reinventing the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information is abundant but knowledge ultimately unattainable.

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Вниманию читателей предлагаются известные рассказы Дж. Олдриджа: "Последний дюйм", "Акулья клетка".
Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
Издание на английском языке.

Серия: Карманная библиотека

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Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death. By now you realize that this novel is unique. And, when you learn how it has made Russian literary-prize history, and has to-date been sold in twenty-two languages, you begin to sense just how unique...

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Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to investigate.

After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he's meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesn't know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon.

Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kyiv - an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is on the loose...

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The generation that matured in the thirties of the last century fell on unprecedented ups and upheavals. All of them passed throught the heart of Ivan Nikiforovich Medyanik. New cities are associated with his name: Ozersk in the Urals and Lermontov in the Caucasus. Whoever he has not been in his life: a blacksmith, tinker, driver, tractor driver, tankman, pilot, battalion commander, and senior manager who performed importand tasks of the government. When many documents were declassified today, it became known that I.N. Medyanik is involved in those who created the country`s nuclear shield. "The Most Russian Person" is one of the documentary stories of V.A. Shatakishvilli, dedicated to famous people, participants and creators of history, people of amazing fate, whose meetings gave him life. Satakishvilli is objective and at the same time delicate, he speaks with enthusiasm and interest. His work is full of wisdom and joy, in a simple and an engaging way it conveys to the reader the impressions of the author and with them - the realities of the old, already unfamiliar life.

Серия: Лондонская премия

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Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to one side: the Light, or the Darkness.

At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming about a plane that is about to crash. He discovers that the child is a prophet: an Other with the gift of foretelling the future. When the catastrophe is averted, Gorodetsky senses a disruption in the natural order, one that is confirmed by the arrival of a dark and terrifying predator.

Gorodetsky travels to London, to Taiwan and across Russia in search of clues, unearthing as he goes a series of increasingly cataclysmic prophecies. He soon realises that what is at stake is the existence of the Twilight itself and that only he will be able to save it.

Серия: Night Watch

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The newest instalment in the phenomenal Night Watch series. The streets of Moscow aren't safe. Vampires are attacking innocent people, and the names of the victims are spelling out a message: ANTON GORODETSKY. Higher Light Magician Anton is one of the Others, possessed of magical powers and able to enter the Twilight, a shadowy world parallel to our own. Each Other must swear allegiance to one side: either the Light, or the Dark. But who is after Anton and what do they want? Anton's investigation leads him to a Prophet, an Other with the gift of seeing the future. Her horrifying vision heralds the end of all life at the hands of an ancient threat - unless Anton can reunite a mysterious organisation known only as the Sixth Watch, before it's too late.

Серия: Night Watch

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Сергей Донатович Довлатов (1941-1990) - известный русский писатель, его книги, переведенные на многие языки, завоевали популярность во всем мире. "Чемодан" - сборник рассказов, который впервые был опубликован в 1986 году.
Писатель - рассказчик покинул Родину, бывший СССР, уехал в Соединенные Штаты Америки, взяв с собой небольшой чемодан. Каждая вещь из этого оказавшегося ненужным в эмиграции чемодана становится поводом, чтобы рассказать о случае из жизни главного героя - "Приличный двубортный костюм", "Номенклатурные полуботинки", "Куртка Фернана Леже" и др. Рассказывает Довлатов с неповторимой интонацией, и все произведения пронизывают честность, ирония, печаль и юмор.
Читателям предоставляется возможность познакомиться с произведением русской литературы, переведенным на английский язык. Издание снабжено комментарием и словарем.

Серия: Русская современная проза на англ. языке

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