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Het is 2033. Twintig jaar geleden heeft een atoomoorlog de beschaafde wereld in puin gelegd. In Moskou heeft een klein deel van de bevolking zijn toevlucht gevonden in de grootste atoomvrije schuilkelder op aarde: de metro, ooit gebouwd door Stalin.Hier, diep onder de grond, overleven een paar duizend mensen op enkele tientallen stations, verdeeld over een handvol kleinere en grotere confederaties van verschillende signatuur - communistisch, fascistisch, liberaal-kapitalistisch - die in staat van Koude Oorlog met elkaar verkeren en worden verbonden door gevaarlijke, geheimzinnige metrobuizen. Boven de grond heeft de straling elk menselijk leven onmogelijk gemaakt en nieuwe levensvormen doen ontstaan. Nu dreigen deze onmensen de metro binnen te dringen, om wat resteert van de mensheid te vernietigen.- Meer dan 1.000.000 lezers van de internet editie- 500.000 exemplaren verkocht in Rusland- EUROCON aanmoedigingsprijs van de European Science Fiction Society 2007 voor het meest veelbelovend debuut van het jaar- Bestseller van het jaar 2008 (Time Out Moscow)- 2010 lente, wereld release van het computerspel door THQ gebaseerd op de roman - meer meer dan 1.000.000 exemplaren verkocht.

Can something that exists merely as a literary text, say a story, come about in real life? Can reality, to put it another way, steal something from literature, the same way literature steals from reality? Such is the question that Libor Hrach, the author of The Adventures of the Wise Badger, fields one evening over a hedonistic supper in a tony Brno restaurant from Kamil Modrá¿ek, himself a burrowing animal of sorts, in Ji¿í Kratochvil's novel The Vow.'Quite simply, I said, everything that has been written either has already happened, or is about to. You write a story, and you can never be sure if what you're writing isn't actually taking place two streets away from where you sit...' If this does not send chills down the spine of the reader of The Vow, they have got a high tolerance for the creepy.Set in 1950s Brno, at the height of Gottwald's Stalinist reshaping of Czechoslovakia into a Communist prison, and partially in today's independent Czech Republic, Kratochvil, alternating between the dry Czech humour of Jaroslav Häek and the uncanny, chilling otherworldliness of Edgar Allan Poe, takes the reader on a journey such as they have never been on before: to geographic areas in the beautiful Moravian city where no foot has set since the Middle Ages, and... places deep inside all of us, where most of us would rather never venture...

Aleksej Vjazintsev is een 27-jarige man uit Oekraïne met een mislukte artistieke carrière. Na de val van de Sovjet-Unie reist hij af naar een stadje in Rusland om de flat van zijn wijlen oom te verkopen. Al snel komt hij erachter dat oom Maxim de titel van Bibliothecaris had en deel uitmaakte van een duistere, gewelddadige wereld met haar eigen regels, erecodes en Boeken - een wereld waaruit geen weg terug is... Bibliothecaris combineert diepe nostalgie naar de idealen (doch - helaas - niet de realiteit) van de Sovjet-Unie met fantastische, maar steeds menselijke verhaallijnen.

Chess is truly an extraordinary game.Today more than 600 million people around the world regularly play chess, and that number gets bigger every year! Why is it so well loved?The book you have in front of you will answer this question, and you will also learn many fascinating facts about chess and its long history.Read on and find out how chess first appeared, and how it changed over time. You will get to know each chess piece, one by one, and understand the idea behind the game, what it's really all about. You will learn about the chessboard, chess rules and tournaments, as well as other games related to chess. We will also share with you some interesting facts about chess life.Chess is certainly a brilliant and beneficial game. It gradually sharpens your mind while fine-tuning your character.

This collection of short writings depicts different aspects of ordinary life: work, love, friends, family, sex, as well as language identity, immigration to the Wonderland, and nostalgia for the lost home. Often ironic about herself and her characters, Mima plays with genres to create a loosely-connected narrative throughout different stories. Her collection of "short" stories about the everyday include horror stories, a turnip tale, and a dictionary of unfamiliar words, among others, and a range of peculiar characters, such as Little Girl, Fear, Titoslav (Tisi, or T.), and Zoka, a boy from the Balkans, which are "probably somewhere in South America." Seasoned with the author's street maxims, the book is about the vicissitudes of life, East meeting West and West meeting East, and the ordinary that is extraordinary.Everyday Stories were first published in Bosnian as Obi¿ne Pri¿e in 2018 by Bratstvo Düa, a well-known underground books and comics publishing house from Zagreb, Croatia, founded and run by the underground legend from ex-Yugoslavia, Zdenko Franji¿. The black-and-white illustrations by Elvis Doli¿ contribute to the book's unique character and indie feel.

The author traces the Queen Mother's formative years, her family life in the palace environment, her growing adoration and ascension to the British throne, how she arranged aid to Stalingrad and was ultimately named an honorary citizen of that city, and other little-known details from the life of the Queen and her circle.With a foreword by Yuri Fokin, Russia's ambassador to the UK in the period 1997-2000, who was personally acquainted with the Queen Mother, the book will undoubtedly appeal to the British public and to anyone interested in Russian-British relations and the two countries' World War II history. Illustrated with photographs from private collections and from the Battle of Stalingrad Museum, some of which readers will see for the first time.Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.Translated from the Russian by Christopher Culver. Proofreading by Emma Lockley.

Sr¿an Srdi¿'s collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region. This book consists of nine stories in which the author brings the reader face to face with the seamy side of everyday life, where, somewhere in the province, hopelessness and despair of the endless Balkan transition meet one another in the most radical way. Devoid of illusions of social engagement and narrative tricks, Srdi¿ linguistically demolishes the present and its numerous platitudes, either liberal or conservative, with which we have been overwhelmed for years, to the extent that we can no longer discern the depth of the twilight zone in which we live. Srdi¿'s stories are linguistically flawless, authentic and emblematically recognizable. The ironic distance that Srdi¿ uses to talk about his characters, which are often socially marginalized and in disproportion to self-perception, combined with exquisite attention to detail, associativity and a number of intertextual references, makes this collection of short stories a genuine masterpiece, which uncompromisingly brings into light the bizarre quality of contemporary life.

"Girls, be good" is an omnibus novel that consists of twenty short stories connected by a single framing narrative: just after the fall of the Berlin wall, foreign investors feel good about the investment climate in Eastern Europe and decide to open a huge toy factory in ex-Yugoslavia, where they are going to produce a hit range of toys designed for girls: small, plush lemurs called Aya, that will be sold all over the world. Before long, though, their optimism starts to feel out of place - the war in Yugoslavia begins, and the factory, having only produced one edition of the toys, has to shut down production.We then follow the little lemurs as they go through some emotionally intense stories that represent a cartography of misfortune, set in the period between the execution and exhumation of the Romanian dictator, Ceausescu, and his wife. The lemurs bear witness to physical and mental abuse, inhumane treatment and molestation of young girls around the world. In each of the stories, a figure in authority at some point orders the girls to follow orders, no matter how destructive this may be for the girl, either physically or mentally. The authorities devastate the weakest beings, merely in order to satisfy the norms of society or to save themselves from being outcasts.The main character, the young woman who writes these stories, has a father who has sold her soul to the devil, just so that he could obtain two decades of life outside the law and without fear of punishment. The young woman herself, meanwhile, has a pact with the devil of her own.Babi¿ finds the evil in places where we are not usually able to see it, and records it with painstaking attention to detail. In this book, he brings us a story about the accountability of criminals, but also about the accountability of victims towards themselves. This is a story about a helplessness that is learned. The book analyses, at times in an extremely brutal and uncompromising manner, the relationships between victims and the evil authorities - relationships that are never as straightforward as we might think. The sheer brutality of the work might turn some readers away. If we find the strength to stick with it till the end, however, this book might just prove to be what Kafka described as "an axe for the frozen sea within us".Translated by Natäa Miljkovi¿.

The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland. An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances - a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads has for the English. Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewicz's first volume of poetry achieved a level of sublimity that immediately set him at the head of all Polish writers - a position he sustained throughout his life with his lyrical, narrative, dramatic, and epic poetry, and which he continues to hold today. In cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute of London, Glagoslav brings out an anniversary edition of Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski. The collection includes all the poems of the 1822 edition, plus the ballads added shortly before the poet's death to the 1852, Leipzig edition.This publication is generously supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.

For those who have a great desire to learn how to make their home comfortable and aesthetically appealing, so that they always want to return there."The modern world of achievements and propaganda of total busyness robs many people of their inner right to have time for themselves, time to recharge.A favorite cup, a cozy chair, a family dinner from grandma's dinnerware set and in the evening - dim light, candles, quiet music and sweet goodnight kisses from our children make us stop for a moment, feel happy and be filled with inspiration for a new day.A house without its charisma is like a typical state institution, it is cold and inexpressive. I wish there were fewer such interiors and more happy women."

The short fiction of Karine Khodikyan can be described as intellectual fiction for women. These short stories with a "e;mystical touch"e; tell stories about women - young and old, happy and sad; even when the protagonist is not a woman, the story will immerse you into the life of a woman, revealing her role in anything and everything.This book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia under the "e;Armenian Literature in Translation"e; Program.

Alles in haar leven, nog voor haar geboorte, begon met de beslissing van haar ouders. Nog voordat zij hun gezinsleven thuis, in Holland, konden opbouwen, zijn ze in 1922 vertrokken om een nieuw land op te bouwen. Een land dat in die periode nog niet hersteld was van een revolutie en een burgeroorlog, het verlies van naasten, van honger en ziekte. Een land waar fabrieken en bedrijven verwoest waren en waar bijna geen technici meer waren om de productie weer op gang te brengen. Marcella's ouders rekenden het tot hun plicht om zich volledig in te zetten voor het herstel van de economie van de jonge republiek en gingen op weg op een verre, en zoals later is gebleken, lange reis. In de dertiger jaren begon in de Sovjetunie de politieke reactie, die in de massale repressie zich heeft geuit. Het land was bevangen door angst. De jaren van repressie vermorzelden of vernietigden miljoenen mensen. En indien je een buitenlander was, en nog wel partijlid, niet zomaar iemand maar een persoon met een leidende positie, was het al bijna onmogelijk om een arrestatie te ontlopen. De Hollanders die toen in het Sovjet-Unie woonden liepen een reeel gevaar om in de molens van de tijd vermalen te worden. Gelukkig heeft Marcella van die vreselijke tijd weinig gemerkt - ze was te jong, en wat het meest telde is dat haar gezin door het noodlot werd gespaard. Het zal wel nooit bekend worden welke beschermengel dit gezin in die verschrikkelijke jaren heeft behoed.Maar de zware jaren waren nog niet voorbij. De Tweede Wereldoorlog brak uit. Het land ging gebukt onder nieuwe beproevingen. Vier lange jaren streed de hele bevolking uit alle macht tegen de vijand. De strijd verliep niet alleen aan de frontlinies, ook in het achterland gaven de mensen hun uiterste krachten aan het arbeidersfront voor de overwinning. Volkomen uitgeput en geveld door een zware ziekte ging ook het hoofd van het gezin Koos J. Visch heen.In dat land, in dat gezin groeide de bescheiden, compromisloze en onbuigzame Marcella op. Na alles wat ze doorgemaakt had aan beproevingen en offers, bombardementen en honger, na het zware werk in haar tienerjaren, had ze haar warmte en haar vertrouwen in de mensheid niet verloren.Marcella zegt: "e;Ik houd heel veel van het Russische volk! En van het Hollandse volk niet minder! Beide landen zijn me even dierbaar! Ze hebben me allebei ongelooflijk veel geschonken. En nooit zullen ze me vreemd zijn."e; Twee landen - twee liefdes. De ene liefde is onvoorwaardelijk, zoals de liefde voor je moeder. De andere liefde is anders, volwassen, als de liefde voor je echtgenoot.Marcella noemt haar memoires "e;mijn erfenis"e;. Ze zegt: "e;Het is mijn nalatenschap aan de kinderen en kleinkinderen. Het waren geen makkelijke jaren, maar ik denk er met waardering aan terug."e;P.S. Helaas heeft Marcella de publicatie ervan niet meer meegemaakt. Toen ze de laatste materialen doorgaf sprak ze: "e;Ik heb hier niets meer aan toe te voegen."e;

The short fiction of Karine Khodikyan can be described as intellectual fiction for women. These short stories with a "mystical touch" tell stories about women - young and old, happy and sad; even when the protagonist is not a woman, the story will immerse you into the life of a woman, revealing her role in anything and everything.This book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia under the "Armenian Literature in Translation" Program.