Very few works of contemporary literature are as politically significant to their own time and place as this one, which asks difficult questions of a small, recently independent country trying to make its way in the world. This book is a literary work of conscience – a work of witness, the result of a lifetime’s experience and observation – by one of the preeminent authors of his country and a former member of Azerbaijan’s National Assembly. T ...
Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer, a leading specialist in Russia’s Jewish culture, this definitive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history. A living record of the rich and vibrant legacy of Russia’s Jews, this reader-friendly and comprehensive anthology features original English translations. In its ...
When Rachel’s brother disappears under mysterious circumstances, she must come to terms with his apparent death, though there is no body. She travels to Joburg to support her sister-in-law, Maya, with the memorial – also to escape her stifling life as a wife and mother. Rachel is unsettled when Max, her ex-lover, arrives. Despite poet Sizwe’s efforts to steady her, Rachel reels from grief and longing. Then Rachel, Maya, Max and Sizwe are invo ...
Detectives in pursuit of criminals, a brother desperate to find his wunga-addicted sibling, a search for abducted girls, a quest to be reunited with a long-lost lover – these are just some of the searches that form the basis of the stories in this collection. On a more metaphysical level there are characters seeking some form of faith or purpose. Entertaining tales that keep the reader enthralled with tension and suspense, while reflecting the r ...
From bestselling, internationally acclaimed author Dorota Maslowska comes a hilarious and devastating satire of consumer culture. Set in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture, Honey, I Killed the Cats introduces us to two independent young women struggling to live the lives that television and glossy magazines have promised them. In a collision of street slang and mass-media sloganeering, Maslowska's electrifying prose ...
О приключениях пожарного караула, странным образом попавших в преисподнюю в гости к самому Люциферу. И вступивших в неравную схватку с его заклятыми врагами гоблинами.
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SUBDUCTION : The brilliance of Subduction only suggests the wonders to come. It is a good day for us when Kristen Millares Young puts pen to paper. Highly recommended. —Luis Alberto Urrea, winner of the American Book Award , finalist for the Pulitzer Prize , author of The House of Broken Angels , The Devil’s Highway , Queen o ...
