A detailed chronicle of the growing up of a girl from a church-going family: Orthodox gymnasium, weekly confessions and the constant oppression of awareness ...

Maria Yalovich (1922–1998), the daughter of a Jewish lawyer, managed to survive under National Socialism by hiding from the authorities in Berlin. After libe...

In a small provincial town there lived two people: a boy who was destined to be a baguette maker, and a girl who had already become a famous singer as a chil...

The characters in the story “Summer Sketch” by Christa Wolf, trying to get away from the bustle and problems of city life, buy houses in the village and begi...

Magnus Florin's novel The Garden (1995) is a fusion of documentary and fantasy. Its main character, Carl Linnaeus, is far from his real prototype, although t...

The book by one of the leading researchers of modernity, professor of sociology at the University of Munich, Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), is devoted to a critical ...

In South Africa, a group of fanatics is preparing an assassination attempt on a prominent political figure. Meanwhile, in Sweden, real estate broker Louise Å...

The hero of the essay by the Swedish writer Olof Lagercrantz “From Hell to Heaven” is the outstanding Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Love for Dant...

Several generations of the Lagerlöf family owned Morbakka, where the girl Selma was born, survived a serious illness, and learned to walk again. Here she lis...

Swedish writer and journalist Thomas Sjöberg wrote an unusual biography of Ingmar Bergman. The focus is on his family and personal life, childhood, relations...

"Flood" is a modern family chronicle, a story about recklessness and arrogance, about love and loss. This drama transcends the narrow, taciturn environment o...

The collection continues the series of literary fairy tales by writers from different countries. The collection of fairy tales by American writers includes w...