At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell t...

The hero of Adam Thorpe's story (1956) "The Hired Soldier" repeatedly drunkenly admits that he "killed a man in cold blood." Translation by Sergei Ilyin.

The hero of the novel, an Englishman and avant-garde composer, on the eve of the millennium, his career takes him to post-Soviet Estonia. Here, day after day...

The action takes place at the end of the war in one of the small German towns, which is liberated by American troops. At the center of the action is the city...