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From the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, a haunting early novel of surveillance and paranoia
Romania―the last months of ...
Патрику Модиано, одному из самых известных французских писателей, в этом году исполняется семьдесят.
Без Модиано французская проза немыслима. Он вошел в литературу в 19...
The Use of Man starts with an unexpected discovery. World War II is ending. Sredoje Lazukić has been fighting all through it. Now, as one of the victorious Partisans, he h...
Курцио Малапарте (Malaparte – антоним Bonaparte, букв. «злая доля») — псевдоним итальянского писателя и журналиста Курта Эриха Зукерта (1989–1957), неудобного классика ита...
Этот роман написан более полувека назад о событиях, которым уже почти сто лет - речь идет о русской революции и о становлении молодой Турецкой Республики.
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In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told thr...
Талантливый польский писатель Т. Боровский (1922 - 1951) - бывший узник фашистского концлагеря в Освенциме. Главная трагедия концлагерей, к которой привела преступная логи...
A vast documentation of the lives of a large cross section of the population of Vienna in 1927.
Acquainted With Grief is an autobiographical story by one of Italy's most important writers of the post-war era. Referred to by Gadda himself as a 'self-inflicted wound',...
One of Ginzburg's finest novels, 'Voices in the Evening'('Le Voci della sera') was first published in its original Italian in 1961.
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first ...
In The Land at the End of the World, one of the twentieth century's most original literary voices delivers a haunting and heartrending meditation on the absurdities of lov...
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the ...
Thomas Bernhard, one of the most distinct, celebrated, and perverse of 20th century writers, took his own life in 1989. Perhaps the greatest Austrian writer of the 20th...
In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and ...
This magnificent epic has been compared to works by Umberto Eco, Thomas Mann, and Dostoyevsky. Harry Mulisch's magnum opus is a rich mosaic of twentieth-century trauma in ...
"A masterpiece."—Richard Eder, The New York Times.
Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear...
In real life, Lars Hertervig would become, along with Edvard Munch, one of Norway's most renowned painters--but in Melancholy he is a promising young artist tortured by do...