My Armenian Friend is a moving and nostalgic story about how one friendship can shift our perspective and irrevocably change our lives.Set in Siberia in the 1970s during the decline of the Soviet Empire, the adult narrator looks back on a childhood f...Lasīt vairāk
Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "e;Wolf"e;She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural authority, but how could she know that this boy would grow up to be the gentlest and strangest of sons and that h...Lasīt vairāk
On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalins reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist....Lasīt vairāk
Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Mo se, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Mo se struggles with his status as an "e;outsider"e; and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Ma...Lasīt vairāk
Catherine the Greats life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover...Lasīt vairāk
Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Fr...Lasīt vairāk
Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Fr...Lasīt vairāk
Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Fr...Lasīt vairāk
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls...Lasīt vairāk
He was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and imprisoned by the Vietnamese when Frances armies in the Far East collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and the only peace he can find is in the presence of Tahar,...Lasīt vairāk
With this novel, Andre Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire....Lasīt vairāk
In the remote forests of Mauritius, young Raj is almost oblivious of the Second World War raging beyond his tiny exotic island. With only his mother for company while his father works as a prison guard, solitary ever since his brothers died years ago...Lasīt vairāk
