The collection of short stories Summerhouse, later, was published for the first time in Germany in 1998. Strong, melancholic and dense short stories with their own humor have shaped several generations since then, and today critics and readers classify th

Lilach Schuster has a comfortable life. She moved to Silicon Valley seventeen years ago and lives in a large house with a swimming pool with her successful husband Michael and smart and gifted son Adam. Everything seems perfect until Adam's classmate Jama

Journalist and writer Alexander Balogh publishes his next work entitled My Czech dream-book. However, it is not about the interpretation of dreams, but about the experiences of meeting selected artists and their works, which resemble pleasant and instruct

Fifty-year-old Joseph used to play football, but for the past 25 years he has suffered from mistakes he made in the past. But now he decided to start over again.

Melancholic Milan Kundera returns to Czechoslovakia, which he once had to leave, at least in his thoughts and feelings, in the unsentimental love novel Ignorance.

The first book by the nobelist Olga Tokarczuk, who speaks to the reader not only in words but also in pictures.

This is a story about love, sensuality and sex. About the Icelandic countryside, poetry and the desire to know the world. About children, those kept by their parents and those raised by strangers. About life and death. And Ásta.

​The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet — from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both.

A delightfully outrageous novel about a sexual assault scandal by the internationally celebrated, prize-winning author of Waking Lions and One Night, Markovitch.

Prašina is a mysterious place: a dark island in the middle of glowing Prague. An extraordinarily exciting story familiar to Jaroslav Foglar's style.

The book of the matters which we have forgotten, we wanted to forget, which had to be forgotten, and which we can not remember.

In a sense, it's a political thriller which becomes a metaphysical with features of magic realism or even a historical novel and then grows into a love story. And when you find yourself in this love story, you will find it an allegory.

The latest novel by Nicole Krauss about searching for meaning, transcendence, and where we really belong.

A detective novel about finding the truth in the mosaic of different people talking about one person

This book is for all children who want more than a simple explanation and they often ask their parents: Why? Why are there ants on an acacia tree, why does nettle stings, why do onions makes eyes tear? Why do flowers need roots in the ground? What was the

Wandering through history presented on 80 large pages of abounding pictures and interesting facts.

A family saga chronicles joy and pain, passion and suffering, loyalty and failure, life and death, proximity and astray, and love in its diverse forms.

The final book by Zygmunt Bauman.

What is life like in the world without paper books? In the world where they survive in museums or are used as barbecue charcoal at snobbish parties...

Short stories by a man who had survived a death camp and later committed a suicide by gassing himself to death.

What is the limit of our lies?

New collection of the early short stories by the timeless Keret.

Cities, their descriptions, stories and beautiful illustrations that accompany them. Everlasting classic book gets a new coat.

The Russian's journey to dictatorship and terror of the times of Yeltsin and Putin.

Interesting, funny, hilarious, crazy, made-up and making you to make things up fairy tales in a great interpretation by Richard Stanke, with Boris Lenko’s music.

A tribute from Barnes to Shostakovich: a composer, conformist and a toy in the hands of the powerful ones.

The latest book by an Israeli author, master of words and a strong representative of his generation.

Fairy tales about the fantastic, too big, miraculous, unjust and pointless world. Just like children would write them.

Novel Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur (in English “The fish have no feet”) is about searching, about a nation on the run from having to face itself, and a search for identity. Who are we, truly, and who do we want to be? Perhaps we never tell the whole truth, a

Fascinating story about the essence of being human in the stories of brothers - twins.

Novel about a farmer boy whose passion for words turns him into a professor of literature.

A story of a day like this when a teacher Andreas decides to change his life completely.

Big book about small vermin.

Our old friend comes in new design and new translation

One of the two novels of the very specific Flannery O'Connor.

Poetic, exciting, philosophical and full of the special kind of atmosphere you can only find in literature written by the best Icelandic authors.

This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in her new place.And maybe stop sleeping with her neighbour’s boyfriend. Perhaps things don’t always w

A ship trapped in Arctic pack ice with a pregnant stowaway on board is the setting for an essentially psychological novel

Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J. D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella Zooey.

The contemporary reality of Belarus, so much alike to the one of recent Slovakia.

Elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir.

The fabric of the novel, which resembles battle canvases in its form and format, not only has an amazing scale – 50 chapters from the life of people from the mid-21st century, which fit into a jigsaw puzzle thanks to the tellurium and the ability to enter

In the epicenter of the world financial crisis, a comedian launched a joke campaign that didn’t seem so funny to the country’s leading politicians . . .

​The Giver is a 1993 American children's novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian.

Continued thriller syndrome E. Main characters- Lieutenant Lucie Hennebelle and the Commissioner Franck Sharko meet again at a new case - they are looking for the key, bringing together several quite unrelated murders.

The single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker

For six and a half years Etgar Keret has recorded his personal life, beginning with the birth of his first child and ending with his father's death. But Keret's sad-funny pieces tell much more than the story of his family and his career.

The Yellow Birds is the debut novel from American writer, poet, and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers. It was one of The New York Times's 100 Most Notable Books of 2012[1] and a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. It was awarded the 2012 The Guardian F

Story of beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle, whose old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare—and violent—film from the 1950s.

Book with a message of hope and meaning of life, vision and human nature.

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then

Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals—Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan.

In his quietly transfixing new memoir, Winter Journal, Paul Auster meditates on what it means for his mind, body, and creativity to experience the unforgiving passage of time.

The book, illustrated by Vlado Kráľ and translated by Milan Žitný will be published in november 2012.

The Sisters Brothers (2011) is a darkly comic, Western-inspired historical novel.

An original view of education and learning in an institution called school, with empathy for those, who sit in the classrooms.

Common life of Sylvie Plath and Ted Hughes, couple of poets, which dramatically affected the world of modern literature. Fictionalized probe into the depths of their creation, marriage and his tragic end.

​Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent

The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.

Just like a musical stretto, Winter’s Journey summons - with formidable clarity and almost frightening density - all the themes that have occupied Elfriede Jelinek in the years and centuries gone by. In the process of addressing these, she has created one

Exquisite and almost excruciating collection, set in present-day Ireland.

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar.

To the End of the Land (original Hebrew title "Isha Borachat Mi’bsora" - "A woman Escapes from a Message") is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones ar

Elli's memoir of her experiences after Auschwitz will captivate readers as they follow her through heartache, frustration, adventure, excitement, love, and ultimately, triumph

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions is a 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace. It was adapted into a film, Big Fish, in 2003 by Tim Burton

​Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force

Last novel of the author of The History of Love. Again the good read.

Choice of the short stories of a great contemporary Russian writer.

Authentic world of journalism in the big world, where an ordinary eye only hardly can see.

The novel, published in German in 1997, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009,

The Bible of the beat generation, one of the most important books of the last century.

Is it a novel, a historical essay, humorist book or - as the title says - an encyclopedia?

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

One of the first literary works, which uncovered the true face of Nazi Germany to Americans.

Vintage of Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor.

Masterful game of words, passion and tenderness, the harsh reality and dreamlike visions, but always powerful story with a surprising plot and unexpected denouement.

Provincial pre-teenager Zazie stays in Paris with her Uncle Gabriel (a female impersonator) for two days, while her mother spends some time with her lover.

The second novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss, published in 2005. The book was a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.

The Sea is My Brother is a novel by the American author Jack Kerouac, published in 2011. The novel was written in 1942 and remained unpublished throughout Kerouac's lifetime.

The Gift of Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1990. It is a sequel to Potok's novel My Name is Asher Lev (1972).

A trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.

This new edition of America's iconic amendment reiterates the charming story of Tracy, who is since one day accompanied by a tiger.

A book about a difficult journey of the painter for his artistic dreams and deliverance from the grip of the Orthodox Jewish community.

The book is a retelling of stories from the life of an Indian boy, whose parents died and after that he lives with the grandparents, wise people of the Cherokee tribe.