Modern prose

“I never thought that Afghanistan would be close to me. That is, how close - I was forced to be here and did not feel much pleasure. The winters were difficu...

The book contains a collection of poems of an esoteric, religious and philosophical nature. The author used biblical stories, parables, reproduced 12 passage...

Melancholic poems touching on the problems of the human psyche and his existentialism.

“I’m twenty-five years old and I work as a journalist. This is my first mistake. The work is lousy - what I don’t write is a scandal. In every paragraph, you...

“I live in one of the most beautiful cities on earth. Yes, sometimes I want to kill the janitor, the store clerk, the scooter, the neighbors, the singing sch...

The main character of the story, the boy Francis, like all teenagers, longs for freedom and adventure. His favorite book is “Star Wars,” whose heroes he so w...

“We are thirty-five years old and we have no children. We have long been accustomed to this. We almost stopped communicating with old friends who became pare...

Kekova Svetlana Vasilievna was born on Sakhalin. A philologist by training. Author of six poetry collections. Winner of several literary awards, including th...

“It is human nature to make mistakes, and the biggest mistake awaits him when he evaluates his own strengths. Few people know what inexhaustible resources li...

Rahimi (Earth and Ashes) won the 2008 Prix Goncourt for this brief, melodramatic novel set amid factional violence somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere. ...

“I’m tired of this heat, this dust and poverty, the arrogance of the poor Arabs and their stupid way of life. I want to go home, to the cold and eternal slus...