"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 (as imagined by the American author). Holding a yellowish photo in his hands, the protagonist of the novel leaves for the distant, unknown Ukraine in order to find the person who rescued his grandfather during World War II. His companions are the same age guy from Odessa, the "blind" old man, and the dog Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. This faerie and unpredictable journey transforms into the path towards oneself, a search for answers to eternal questions."
Translated from English by Rostyslav Semkiv. (Nota bene: it is based on this book, "Everything Is Illuminated", that the same-titled film was created starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hutz – the frontman of Gogol Bordello) In Ukrainian. Type of the edition: hard cover Format: 107x177 mm Number of pages: 428 Publisher: Fact, Kyiv Contents:
The biographical texts, as well as the anti-utopia 'Order of the White Mouse', will help one understand what processes are taking place in the contemporary Belarus, the current state of the Belarusian language, whether the citizens have a choice or freedom of speech..
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How many lives does a person have? Do previous lives influence us today – our character, preferences, fears? Werber reflects on that – as always, in an interesting and thrilling way.
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Overcrowding of the planet and other hazards make people build an interplanetary spaceship and go into space in search of a better place to live. And it would have been fine had the saviors of humanity taken the following into account: humans remain humans, and they took on the journey not only their virtues, but also their vices..
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An unheard-of act of vandalism in an art museum has struck Europe, newspaper headlines keep mentioning the Acid Vandal. Who is he, why did he commit the attack? Jacek Dehnel's new novel is full of black humor, it is a work about arts, love, and an individual who is not afraid to challenge society – written at one breath.
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What shall you do if you are a Russian-speaking Ukrainian of Jewish origins living in Germany? If you are friends with Arabs and encounter neo-Nazis, while your father is still nostalgic about the Soviet Union – what is a way out?..
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It is unlikely that there is another author who would with such witty sarcasm and fervent irony square accounts with his own and our not that much bypast past. The novel will also promote better understanding and awareness of the Ukrainian – above all communist and postcommunist – past..
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People and cats – under the same sky. Social cataclysms, wars, and epidemics have a detrimental effect on everything alive. Who will rescue the life on the planet? Maybe, this is cats' mission? The book presents reflections on eternal values, about life and death, love and hatred, religion and science, being responsible for those who are near, for those who were tamed... for cats.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The book that has become a cult one for many generations. The classic writer, the mystery writer, who announced on the top of his popularity that he was leaving literature and would live in the American province, away from temptations of the city...
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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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"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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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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..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 Armenian... To survive, for the first time in his life Gio has to make his own decision...
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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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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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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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