Modern prose

On the third day after moving out of town, my husband bought a long rope - when you live outside the city, various little things in the house can come in han...

In The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling, Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to...

This is a story about life, friendship and human relationships, about what we so often lack in modern reality. The heroes of the story are ordinary people, v...

Summer 2029. After a new unknown virus, there are almost no people left on Earth. Among the few survivors are Sergei, who buried his family, and the complete...

An ironic story, full of humor and everyday bitterness, from the perspective of a child about his childhood in the fifties and about his mother’s futile sear...

“Head-born, or the Germans are dying out” is a work built primarily on associations; this is a kind of protocol recording of the author’s misgivings and fear...

One of many thousands of stories about repressions in Belarus. Not the worst, but true to every word. Contains obscene language.

First person story. On New Year's Day, a young man finds himself alone in someone else's apartment, remembers his childhood, and analyzes his actions. As a c...

In this book, the author announces a story - a grotesque, where the main character is in self-isolation and has the blues because of the current situation. N...

Give thanks to fate and remain human under any life circumstances. Helping and supporting a loved one or a complete stranger in difficult times is so simple....

Michel Rio's exquisitely ironic prose is a brilliant example of the latest European literature. Russian readers are well aware of his novels. The range of Mi...