Modern prose

“I live in one of the most beautiful cities on earth. Yes, sometimes I want to kill the janitor, the store clerk, the scooter, the neighbors, the singing sch...

The main character of the story, the boy Francis, like all teenagers, longs for freedom and adventure. His favorite book is “Star Wars,” whose heroes he so w...

“We are thirty-five years old and we have no children. We have long been accustomed to this. We almost stopped communicating with old friends who became pare...

Kekova Svetlana Vasilievna was born on Sakhalin. A philologist by training. Author of six poetry collections. Winner of several literary awards, including th...

“It is human nature to make mistakes, and the biggest mistake awaits him when he evaluates his own strengths. Few people know what inexhaustible resources li...

Rahimi (Earth and Ashes) won the 2008 Prix Goncourt for this brief, melodramatic novel set amid factional violence somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere. ...

“I’m tired of this heat, this dust and poverty, the arrogance of the poor Arabs and their stupid way of life. I want to go home, to the cold and eternal slus...

“This white city did not immediately become My White City, because I was too arrogant. The very first time, approaching him on the Agadir-Kaza intercity bus,...

“I’m sitting on the carpet, under the hysterically humming air conditioner, which is using its last strength to disperse the unbearable Tehran heat. I fold m...

He sits opposite. Someone else's and one's own - at the same time. Once the epicenter of my female happiness, which is now perceived as an integral part of t...