When the opinion of others matters too much, the pursuit of fame changes your life forever. A scandalously famous artist in the past, today – a seller of weight loss pills. How did this happen? He doesn't remember. And why...

Kyiv lawyer Edem considers himself a failure: he is terminally ill, has not achieved success in his career, and most importantly, he lost the great love of his life fifteen years ago. In a moment of utmost despair, a genie...

The novel, based on real events, tells the story of the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This book is about how political turmoil, interstate intrigues, short-sighted plans, and mistakes can affect the fates of thousands of people. Through...

On a fine August morning, Eleanor Bishop swims in the pond near the Paper Palace, the family's summer residence on Cape Cod. Plunging into the water, she relives the passionate and vivid adventure that happened to her the night before,...

Two years have passed since the events that nobody wants to remember. Everyone tried to move on, but in this city something always prevents it. Residents of the hockey town continue to search for answers to the most important questions:...

"The Yolk" is the first work of Rebecca Kwan, in which she departs from the epic, fantasy and experiments with the satirical novel genre. This is a story about temptations, passions and conflicts in the world of writers and publishers....

The legendary novel "Cult", which at the beginning of our millennium immediately made its author a classic of modern Ukrainian literature, is coming again - to a renewed generation of readers. This unique work has already been translated into Serbian,...

France is engulfed in the fire of the Second World War. Large cities and small towns are occupied by the Nazis, enemy planes are in the sky, and despair, death and suffering are all around. Vianne Mauriac is a village...

Vilma Vaeriod, a lonely piano teacher, thirty-five. She tries to avoid dangers and risks, eats only healthy food, and each of her days is similar to the previous one. But one day, after an unexpected visit from a priest and...

"Four Million" is one of the 12 collections of short stories by O. Henry that the publishing house "Bohdan" planned to print.It is precisely thanks to his stories, in which sparkling humor is closely intertwined with small tragedies, and their...

"I apologize, but the war has begun."   For the writer Vladislav Ivchenko, February 24 began with such words. A day when life changed forever. Already in line at the military enlistment office, he realized that he had 'Now there...

In O. Henry's short stories, the element of theatricality is very important, which is undoubtedly connected to the author's own fatalism, the belief in Chance or Fate. By freeing his characters from "global" reflections and decisions, O. Henry never diverts...

Why did Olya Synychka buy an old house in the village? To walk barefoot in the morning on the dewy grass, to breathe deeply and feel — this is it, my place, here is my heart. To finally start living,...

#1 BEST SELLER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES•CULTREAD series of fiction•Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Colman, Sophie Turner, Stephen Mackintosh and others played the main roles in the adaptation of the novel, which was released in 2013.The past of Vida Winter, a...

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag...

All her life she was told that she was weak and ugly. All her life she was looked after, but not loved. All her life, she considered herself superfluous and behaved quietly, like a mouse, so as not to burden...

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a blend of fiction and philosophy, centered on female sensuality. A novel in which eroticism and sexuality exist on a par with beautifully written psychological nuances and analysis of the time. In their illustrations for the...

A strange wooden cube was a grandfather's legacy to the student Maksym Pidhirskyi. The legacy that Maxim handed over to his teacher of Old Slavonic mythology, Dalibor Kravts. Passed and... disappeared forever. Dalibor found an encrypted message in Glagolitic script inside...

Charlie Gordon is mentally retarded, but he has friends, a job, hobbies and an irresistible desire to learn. He agrees to take part in a dangerous scientific experiment that could make him the smartest… What price do we have to...

It is a shame for the whole village to give birth to a child without a husband. And if the child is someone else's? Olena hid the baby out of pity and did not tell anyone about it, not even...

The novel Sweet Darusia by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is, without exaggeration, one of the most significant events in Ukrainian literature since Independence. The French critic (in France, "Sweet Darusia" was published by the most prestigious publishing house...

One frosty day in the winter of 1975, the Afghan boy Amir witnesses a terrible act. This event forever changes both his own life and the fate of his close friend Hassan. The thing is not only in what he...

They were called bandits, robbers, thugs, and even in curses-anathems it was forbidden to mention their names. To kill in the memory of the humbled masses the idea for which the rebels sacrificed their young lives. Indeed, they shot, hanged,...

• The author is a laureate of numerous literary awards• Chronicle of pre-war times, full of boundless faith in manHow to live when the closest relatives are kicked out of their own house and their own life? Where can the soul find...