"Georgia, 1990-ies. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a civil and ethnic war began in the Caucasus... A son of a wealthy family, Gio, fell in love with a beautiful and sad girl, Yana, who was a prostitute – and the father mercilessly separated the lovers. Having lost the taste for life, Gio subdues to his friend's persuasion to help him traffic "weed". At night, they enter the territory of Karabakh. The friends are captured by Azerbaijanis, and a bit later they are recaptured by Armenians... To survive, for the first time in his life Gio has to make his own decisions. For the first time in his life, amid mortal danger, he finally feels peace of mind... and freedom." In 2005, the film "A Trip to Karabakh" based on this book was released. Translated from English by Volodymyr Polyakov In Ukrainian. Type of the edition: hard cover Format: 118x165 mm Number of pages: 240 Publisher: Bookclub, Kharkiv
Publisher: BookClub Catalogue number: ISBN 9789661478519 Year: 2014
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This is a book about the customs and traditions that have survived in Georgia in spite of the Soviets' rule, neo-capitalism, and civilization as it is. All the people and events described here are real. The routes – feasible..
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This is the third book by the famous Finnish journalist and writer Anna-Lena Lauren published in Ukrainian. While her previous two books reflected current realities of life in Russia and in the Caucasian republics, from this book the Ukrainian reader can learn more about the author's interested perspective of Ukraine as well.
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In this truly Bosnian book, West and East, Christianity and Islam, murderers and their victims, psychopaths and heroes thrown out to margins of life meet... This book is really experienced deeply. Experiencing it is about crying when it feels good, carrying eternal little pain under your shoulder blade, and knowing that life will go on forever – brutal, unexpected, and beautiful.
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In this book, there are He-Reader and She-Reader, and 10 more artistic canvases, or rather the first chapters of stories by various authors, where the plots are not at all similar to each other. The literary game engages, new characters, scenes, allusions pop up... And somewhere at the end, everything should eventually compose one single puzzle picture...
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"The Buried Giant" immerses the reader into a semi-mythic atmosphere and the history of the early Middle Ages. What should one look for: truth or deceit, forgotten past or lonely future, false reconciliation or a bloody revenge war? Every individual reader has to courageously answer these questions for him/herself. The answers are painful..
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A deep, sophisticated, and unexpected novel about love and loss. The glossary definition of "tenderness" is: fragility, frailness, weakness. The story by David Foenkinos is about these amazing features and the paradoxic nature of life. A same name movie was released based on the plot of the book, directed by Foenkinos brothers.
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..a blood-stained contract, fulfillment of all desires – and a forfeit that lasts forever. The lyrical hero unintentionally plays a significant role in the most important historic events of the present and the past. The kaleidoscope of thrilling changes becomes a prison, from which the protagonist desperately tries to escape seeking salvation from his own God only known to him..
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..These conversations expose the feelings of guilt and anxiety, betrayal and jealousy on the verge of madness, the desire to experience fleeting love ecstasy and the dread of the impossibility of making these moments last. And also – the eternal dilemma of truth and sincerity.
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The story will be interesting for those who look in a detective plot for not only solving the crime, but also for answering the eternal questions: why is evil indestructible, the law – often powerless, and human justice – for the sake of restoration of the Supreme Law and the triumph of the good – sometimes forced to follow crooked paths of evil?
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What is this story about? About fancy labyrinths of fantasy? About the devil, who steps down from pages of the book and starts shuffling all the characters' cards? About a war distorting human lives? Yes, but first and foremost, of course, this is a story of love, of the eternal attraction of souls and bodies, for the sake of which one should live.
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Winner of 2014 Booker Award. A novel for those who do not like reading novels about the war. The narrative is deliberate, focused and quiet, without extra details or sentimentality. The novel get assembled as a whole in its last pages – and this takes one's breath away..
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..The cowardice, even apostasy, will persecute him throughout his life first in Afghanistan, then in America, until Amir challenges all of his inner demons and finds "a way to become good again."
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A novel that the world looked forward to for more than 10 years! "Jacob and Julia have been together for half of their lifetime. Three wonderful sons, a cozy home – a happy family. All kinds of things happened to them: both good and bad, and lately the bad prevailed. The dear, related souls suddenly started floating away..."
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He is a new hero. An old man who began to truly live only when he turned eighty-three, but realized the meaning of life and did in it everything that could be done! His story inspires, his adventures impress, his philosophy is enticing..
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Sally Porter was found naked and unconscious on the ocean shore. It turns out that the girl tried to commit suicide. Sally finds herself in a hospital, but she does not remember anything and she is convinced: it was not she who tried to commit suicide. Doctor Roger Ash undertakes helping the girl. He discovers four more personalities living in Sally's head...
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Lots of readers say that while reading, they "plunge into the book", but only those who have fully mastered the art of reading can plunge into it literally: walk along the seaside and bring sand into the house on their soles, buy products in a store that has not long existed in reality, or meet a reader who is traveling along the same sentence...
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What is the work of an angel? Is it possible to influence a human choice? Can one make someone happy? Is there a limit on the path of cognition? The novel describes the world of angels in a thrilling way with fine humor, intermingling the plot vicissitudes with esoteric knowledge and scientific data.
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..they depart to conquer the continent of the dead and to find out the location of Paradise. For two and a half years, the writer studied in detail the theme of death in perception of different religions, mythologies, doctrines, he tried to discover points of intersection among known sacred texts and invented the new word "Thanatonaut", meaning "death sailor"..
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As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Syria, Egypt, Iran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians..
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Five school friends – as if the five fingers of a hand. But one day, without explanation, the friends deleted Tsukuru from their live... For 16 years, he built railway stations for others, because at the only one, in his hometown, nobody was waiting for him any longer. Now he will find them to find out what happened 16 years ago.
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This is a story of complex relationships of two outstanding women: Blanche Wittman – "the Queen of Hysteria", patient of Professor Jean-Martin Charcot, and Marie Curie – French researcher of Polish origins, twice laureate of the Nobel Prize. What united these two women? Above all – the desire to understand..
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Before becoming a writer, Alessandro Baricco was a musician. Maybe that is the reason why the wonderful poetic language of "Silk" resembles a weightless soft-and-tender song with its unhurried flow, its repetitions/refrains..
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"The Life of Pi" is a parable novel telling the story of Pi, a son of the owner of an Indian zoo. The fate made him and his family emigrate to Canada. During the journey their ship has an accident, and the boy finds himself in a rescue boat, alone with a tiger, hyena, zebra, and monkey...
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This book is about love and solitude. About parents and children. About the echo of ancient tragedies. About the capacity – and incapacity – to live and survive. About precipices in life and bridges over them. About fears – deep and superficial. About flight from ghosts of the past and about the very possibility – or impossibility – to get away from them...
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..a young director, a favorite of the metropolitan public accidentally comes across a story that may become his greatest success – or the most fatal defeat. The fate of a girl, who in a village occupied by the Nazi army falls in love with an occupier soldier, and her family makes him recall his own tragedy..
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When the Red Army invaded Slovakia, Zuzana was mourning for her loved one, a Russian guerilla soldier Alexei, who died in the hands of the Nazi invaders. Suddenly – an arrest, accusations of treason, and she already finds herself in a crowded train that carries to the logging camps of the Gulag disenfranchised slaves of "the state of victorious socialism"..
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Events of the novel take place in Serbia in 1999, during the NATO bombing and after. The total mobilization did not spare George Uzelts – Jole, an extravagant city guy, a capricious and superficial member of the self-proclaimed urban elite. He returns from the war devoid of all illusions..
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It will hit on the face with facts that are difficult to refute. And you will only have, as a looser boxer, to miss one blow after another. Without hope for a happy-end, but with the hope that in place of the destroyed civilization something more humane will be revived. That one will be able to laugh at death. See its terrible beauty. And understand the meaning of life.
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The novel was published in 2012 as a result of a trip to North Korea – a country of one of the last totalitarian regimes in the world. The book, which critics compare with Orwell's "1984", tells us about life of the country entirely hidden from the eyes of the world around, where in the 21 century lawlessness, starvation, and executions are commonplace.
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Memories of his parents about such incompatible things as childhood, the war, and the Holocaust – Markus Zusak used them as the basis for the story about a little girl who in the terrible years of World War II, having learned to read due to a textbook of a gravedigger, realized the power of Words and, having lost all the rest, survived – only due to this power.
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This is a story of humanism, a dream, love and the light that shines in the darkness and the darkness does not absorb it... World War II breaks into lives of millions. In war-torn French town of Saint-Malo, French girl Marie-Laure and German boy Werner Pfennih meet. They are both blind...
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Imagine that your deepest desires start coming true. The most secret, dark desires that so far you had no clue about. This is what happens to Jonas, to whom an unexpected passer-by one day offers to fulfill his three wishe...
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Andrzej Stasiuk's novel – though it can be referred to as a geographical, historical, archaeological, report novel – is primarily a detective one. A large and grand, simple and multi-layer, frank and exquisite tale of a search for the East, a search for its shadow and its sources.
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Truth is his religion, colleagues say about Henry Marsh. Actually, in this book of memories and reflections by the renowned British neurosurgeon, you will discover lots of fascinating stories, where the main focus is the ethics of relationships between the doctor and the patient, the fine line between bitter truth and fragile hope.
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A moving, deep, and sincere story about a boy whose father was killed during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. After his death, the nine year-old Oscar finds an envelope with a key and the inscription "Black" in the closet. The boy decides to talk to every Black in New York..
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Sorbonne professor Francois lives in a strange time – Muslims come to govern France, and the University is forced to obey the new owners – Sheikhs from Saudi Arabia. Most of his colleagues convert to Islam to keep their position...
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What happens to a person after his/her death? Is there a soul? Is this the end or just the beginning? Chris obtained answers to these questions when he crossed the edge of eternity. His earthly life ended – but it turns out that there is something else in store! After a long walk in damp darkness, Chris found himself in a place where there was no sadness..
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A bright pink package with the inscription "The Beautiful You"... Women all over the world are ready to storm stores to obtain this remarkable device, which makes them wild with pleasure. Having locked themselves in their homes and forgotten about everything, they do it over and over… And they no longer need men...
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Music, books, the memory are what help the protagonist to survive in his quest "in search of the lost self". The post-war Serbia, the countdown begins in 2004. But the roads, buses, trains, suburbs, gas stations on motorways are just the scenery...
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This lyrical novel by the classic of the Serbian literature of the 20th century Milos Crnjanski is one of the best examples of the European expressionism. Evidence of the narrator – a Serb who in the uniform of an Austro-Hungarian officer took part in the First World War – conveys to the reader the authentic and absurd atmosphere of the hard time..
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"The Book of Faces" is a map of interests and passions of the famous Polish essayist Marek Bienczyk, it's wit and erudition, with which he leads the reader through the world of what he has experienced and contemplated, at every step encountering various figures – contemporaries and people from the past, famous and almost unknown to anyone..
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One does not choose the time to be born. Lives of Remarque's characters, as well as his own, fell on hard times. The war that breaks lives, loss of illusions, emigration, the precarious situation and hopelessne... But despite any hardships, these people did not lose either their courage, or the inner strength...
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The early short stories by Arno Schmidt were written in the expressionist and jazz style. These are stories of people deeply affected by the war, who are in search of themselves through love, eroticism, and literature. They provoke, they are ironic, and they rebel against the monsters of the "restoration" Germany of the 1950's – conservatism, clericalism..
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This book is more than just a book, just a story. No extra laces – frank, light and painful – to the extent that one feels no shame when, while reading, one senses tears in one's eye...
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One of the most humane and most insightful works of our time... Retarded Charlie Gordon works as a janitor at a bakery, and in his spare time he attends school. His secret dream is to become intelligent. And the fate offers this chance to him...
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The jubilee edition commemorated to the 25th anniversary of release of the novel – the best work by the author! This is a parable novel that everyone should read at least once in the lifetime...
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In the skillful translation by the Lviv resident Natalya Ivanychuk, works by the famous Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch sound so natural and easy, as if he wrote them in Ukrainian. The book offered includes such striking and original stories as "Don Juan from Kolomiya", "Venus in Furs"...
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The book by Evgen Markov was published for the first time in 1872 and became popular even during the author's lifetime. It is travel notes of an unbiased witness who aims to convey to us not only impressions from what he saw in the Crimea of the mid-19th century, but also the feelings of historical presence in this territory of the centuries-old culture of the Mediterranean...
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"A Child of Man" is selected works by famous Polish writer, doctor, and educator Janusz Korczak, which are published in Ukrainian for the first time. The texts from different genres collected under the title composed by the editor help to visualize Korczak's child-centered philosophy developed in the cruel twentieth century...
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In this book, the reader will find a multi-dimensional picture of Kolyma camps and, partially, Siberian ones in the early post-war period. Its author is an educated Austrian, who accidentally found himself in the boiling pot of GULAG. Not suffering loss of Soviet ideals, Vernon Kress feels as a chronicler, an unbiased witness there...
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This life-affirming novel combines everything that can be combined: a journey of a twenty-year-old American along the modern Ukraine, the history of a Jewish township destroyed during the Holocaust, letters by a not very literate young translator from Odessa about our modern life...
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With ith elegant irony, with the concise narrative Daniel Kehlmann describes lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment period. "Measuring the World " is a refined game with facts and fabrications, an adventure novel interspersed with colorful allusions and hidden quotations, written in an virtuoso masterly style and filled with deep philosophical sense.
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Is it possible to find out the truth about ourselves and the closest people, is it possible to find the words to justify one's own mistakes or to say sorry – especially when it is too late to change anything? Those alive and dead speak in this book in a slow counterpoint...
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