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Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair—established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia’s finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O’Brien has called Tolstaya “an enchantress.” Anita Desai has spoken of her work’s “richness and ardent life.” Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov.

In the galactic war with the Rigelians, every allied system counts, so Earth sends the to contact the gnorph of planet Fafnir for a treaty. But there’s a Rigelian ship landing at the same time, so the two enemies must compete for the natives’ favor, rather like the Federation and the Klingons did in the classic Star Trek episode Friday’s Child.<

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the “topside” world they’ve left behind.<

Università d’Islanda. In un mattino di fine ottobre, il silenzio del dipartimento di Storia viene lacerato da un grido. Aprendo la porta di uno stanzino, il direttore si vede crollare addosso un cadavere senza occhi e con una runa magica incisa sul petto. Il corpo è quello di Harald Guntlieb, enigmatico dottorando tedesco con la passione per il cupo periodo della caccia alle streghe. Ma chi era veramente Harald? Per la polizia, che chiude frettolosamente il caso con l’arresto di un piccolo spacciatore, era solo uno stravagante ragazzo ricco in vena di emozioni forti, dalle perversioni sessuali alle modificazioni corporee estreme. Per Matthew Reich, inviato in Islanda dalla famiglia Guntlieb per riaprire le indagini, era uno dei massimi esperti europei di magia nera, grazie a un’inestimabile quanto agghiacciante collezione ereditata dal nonno. Per Thora Gudmundsdottir, l’avvocatessa incaricata di assistere l’affascinante Matthew, era solo un figlio non amato, incamminatosi fra le tenebre per inseguire un miraggio. Non resta dunque che ripercorrere i passi del giovane in un folle labirinto sulle tracce di un libro maledetto, fra antichi sortilegi e moderne rivalità accademiche, per svelare un mistero sempre più tetro, complesso e intrigante…<

Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors — anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye — soon making enough money to open two pleasure palaces. But just as Jack is finally coming into his own, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, desperate to pull himself up to greatness. Depressed and vulnerable, he’s quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general. Marked with Paul Theroux’s trademark biting humor and audacious prose, is a gripping work from an award-winning author.<

Świat Holmana to planeta eksploatowana przez wielkie korporacje. Do czasu, gdy okazuje się, że wykorzystywane do niewolniczej pracy tubylcze gatunki: nildory i sulidory są inteligentne. Na planetę zostaje nałożona kwarantanna, władza wraca do rąk tubylców. Gundersen, były pracownik korporacji, wraca na Świat Holmana gnany ciekawością i obsesją na punkcie miejscowej cywilizacji i religijnego obrządku ponownych narodzin. Spotyka wielu swoich dawnych przyjaciół i odkrywa wielką tajemnicę nildorów.<

A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thúy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.

Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow — of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.

Baltimore Sun reporter Simon spent a year tracking the homicide unit of his city's police, following the officers from crime scenes to interrogations to hospital emergency rooms. With empathy, psychological nuance, racy verbatim dialogue and razor-sharp prose, he offers a rare insider's look at the detective's tension-wracked world. Presiding over a score of sleuths is commander Gary D'Addario, "connoisseur of survival" who grapples with political intrigue, massive red tape and "red balls" (major, difficult cases). His detectives include Tom Pelligrini, obsessed with solving the rape-murder of an 11-year-old girl; Rich Garvey, whose "perfect year" is upset by a murder case that collapses in court; and black, cosmopolitan Harry Edgerton, a lone wolf, son of a jazz pianist. This hectic daily log reveals the detective's beat on Baltimore 's mean streets (234 murders in 1988) to be brutal, bureaucratic and, occasionally, mundane.<

Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state.

At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters — a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a “clock whisperer”—at the Time Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal’s absurdist misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant blend of hope for the promise of the future and nostalgia for a simpler time.

Following on the Giller Prize-nominated and Governor General's Literary Award-winning success of Ru, Kim Thúy's latest novel is a triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined.

Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband-a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal.

Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears.

Mãn is a mystery-her name means "perfect fulfillment," yet she and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Mãn discovers the all-encompassing obsession and ever-present dangers of a love affair.

Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy and quiet power, Mãn is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness and its love of life.

Año 1940. Imparables, los alemanes invanden Europa. Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espías de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett es un antiguo soldado que conoció la Guerra Civil y quedó traumatizado tras la evacuación de Dunkerque. Ahora trabaja para el servicio secreto británico: debe ganarse la confianza de su antiguo condiscípulo Sandy Forsyth, quién se dedica a negocios turbios en la España del Caudillo. Por el camino, Harry se verá envuelto en un juego muy peligroso y asaltado por amargos recuerdos.<

* Dalinar, the assassinated king's brother and uncle of the new one, is an old soldier who is weary of fighting. He is plagued by dreams of ancient times and legendary wars, visions that may force him into a new role he could never have imagined.

* Kaladin, a highborn young man who has been brought low, indeed to the most miserable level of military slavery, and like Ben Hur must suffer and struggle to survive and rise again.

* Shallan, a naïve but brave and brilliant young woman who will do anything to save her impoverished noble house from ruin.

These are people we will come to know deeply and take to our hearts. But just as important to is a fourth key ‘character’, the unique world of Roshar itself, a richly imagined setting as real as science fiction's Dune, as unforgettable as epic fantasy's Middle Earth. Through all the volumes of , Brandon Sanderson will make Roshar a realm we are eager to visit.

What Robert Jordan's has been to the fantasy genre for the last two decades, will be to the next, and is where it all begins.

Powiesc rozgrywa sie podczas wojny w Afganistanie, a jej bohaterem jest rosyjski zolnierz. Choc brzmi to realistycznie, wielbiciele fantasy moga spac spokojnie.- W Zmii pojawi sie bardzo duzo magii - zapewnia Sapkowski.

AFGANISTAN - tutaj od wiekow scieraly sie krwawo armie kolejnych wladcow dazacych do wladzy nad swiatem. Tu walczyli i gineli najezdzcy z Macedonii, Wielkiej Brytanii i Rosji. A umierajacych obserwowaly z ukrycia zimne oczy z czarna, pionowa zrenica. Oczy zlotej zmii, ktora jest i ktorej nie ma.

ZMIJA to nowy swiat, to zupelnie nowa formula literacka, zadziwiajace polaczenie fantasy i realistycznej powiesci wojennej...

ZMIJA jest piekna i zlowroga...

AFGANISTAN, SIODMY ROK PANOWANIA Aleksandra Wielkiego. W zapomnianej przez bogow krainie gina najdzielniejsi synowie Macedonii.

ALEKSANDROS HO TRITOS HO MAKEDON

27 LIPCA 1880. W trakcie drugiej wojny angielsko-afganskiej, 66. pulk piechoty traci w bitwie pod Mainwandem 64 procent swego stanu.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

15 LUTEGO 1989.

Kres sowieckiej interwencji w Afganistanie. Zginelo ponad 13 tysiecy zolnierzy ZSRR.

DA ZDRAWSTWUJET SOWIETSKIJ SOJUZ!

ROK 2009.

Znowu tu sa. Nie szurawi i nie Amerykanie. To jacys inni, zeslani przez szatana niewierni

Oby wygubil ich Allah.

LA ILAHA ILL-ALLAH...

The diary survived. Sredoje survived. Vera and Milinko have survived too. But what survives? A few years back Sredoje, Vera, and Milinko were teenagers, struggling to make sense of life. Life, they now know, can be more bitter than death.

A work of stark poetry and illimitable sadness, is one of the great books of the 20th century.

In the peaceable, river-side village of Milltown, Secretary Ku has fallen into disgrace. It has been officially proven that he is not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by his neighbors, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people. Refusing to renounce his high status, he-along with his teenage son-keeps his distance from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him. Then one day a feral girl, Huixian, arrives looking for her mother, and the boat people, and especially Ku's son, take her to their hearts. But Huixian sows conflict wherever she goes, and soon the boy is in the grip of an obsession.

Raw, emotional, and unerringly funny, the Man Asian Prize-winning novel from China's bestselling literary author is a story of a people caught in the stranglehold not only of their own desires and needs, but also of a Party that sees everything and forgives nothing.