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Criză la Moscova by Simone de Beauvoir RO
FranceDescription:
Inspirat din vizitele pe care Simone de Beauvoir le-a făcut, împreună cu Jean Paul Sartre, în Uniunea Sovietică între 1962 şi 1966, Criză la Moscova este o poveste despre dificultatea comunicării şi dependenţa în cuplu.
Nicole şi André, doi profesori universitari, pleacă într-o călătorie la Moscova pentru a o vizita pe Maşa, fiica lui André dintr-o altă căsătorie.
Sumbra realitate sovietică îl dezamăgeşte pe André şi declanşează un moment de tensiune în cuplu. Nicole se simte neînţeleasă şi abandonată, criza conjugală oblig... continue
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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler EN
HungaryDescription:
Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, "Darkness At Noon," is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation. A seminal wor... continue
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Daughter from the Dark by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko EN
UkraineDescription:
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra--a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)--return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a l... continue
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Daughters of the NIght Sky by Aimie K Runyan EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A novel--inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army--about a woman's sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war. Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband--a sensitive artist who fears for her safety--can dissuade her from doing her part as a proud daughter of Russia. After ... continue
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De aardappels en de staat by Oleg Pavlov NL
RussiaDescription:
Een grimmige, hilarische parabel in de traditie van Boelgakov, Dostojevski en Gogol. De boeken van Pavlov hebben de hedendaagse Russische literatuur duidelijk beïnvloed en benadrukken de verantwoordelijkheid van het individu, nog steeds een revolutionaire houding in Poetins Rusland. De Sovjet-heilstaat loopt op zijn laatste benen. In de onherbergzame steppe van Kazachstan moet een compagnie goelagbewakers zien te overleven op de rotte aardappels die het verre regimentshoofdkwartier hun heeft toebedeeld. De kapitein komt op een lumineus idee: als ze dat rantsoen nu in de grond stoppen, eten ze ... continue
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De oorlog heeft geen vrouwengezicht by Svetlana Alexijevitsj NL
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Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vochten ongeveer een miljoen vrouwen in het Rode Leger, maar hun verhaal is nooit verteld. In De oorlog heeft geen vrouwengezicht verzamelde Svetlana Alexijevitsj de herinneringen van honderden van hen die scherpschutter waren, tanks bestuurden of in veldhospitaals werkten. Hun verhaal is niet het verhaal van strijd alleen, maar dat van mensen in oorlog: wat gebeurde er met hen, hoe werden ze door de oorlog veranderd? Hoe was het om te leren te doden? Samen vertellen ze het niet-heroïsche verhaal van de oorlog, dat ontbreekt in eerdere getuigenissen van veteranen... continue
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol EN
Description:
One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these “souls” as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the dev... continue
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Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A handsome young man arrives in St Petersburg at the house of Marya Morevna. He is Koschei, the Tsar of Life, and he is Marya's fate. For years she follows him in love and in war, and bears the scars. But eventually Marya returns to her birthplace - only to discover a starveling city, haunted by death.