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Adventure

2018

The Wall

by Andriy Tsaplienko

In the fantastic novel by Andriy Tsaplienko, the reader faces two post-apocalyptic societies where one confidently paves the way for progressive development, and the other degrades. The author is convinced that mentality and everlasting traditions change very little over the centuries. The novel heroes, Ukrainians, and Russians, who bear bright national traits, are in constant tense antagonism. Their war goes on at several levels — from armed conflicts to clashes of souls and inner convictions. And the Wild Fields that remain after big and small confrontations are like unhealed wounds, cancer tumors: they continue to bleed, demonstrating to humanity that war produces only the war.

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Sagas

2019

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

by Oksana Zabuzhko

This novel has been recognized by Ukrainian and foreign critics not only as the most outstanding work of Ukrainian literature since independence, but also as one of the most important in all Eastern European literature since the fall of communism. Awarded the Central European Literary Prize "Angelus" (2013), translated into English, German, Polish, Czech, Russian, repeatedly awarded as "Book of the Year" (in Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, Poland), "Museum of Abandoned Secrets", Nobel novel class ”(Newsweek Polska); rightly became the calling card of new Ukrainian literature. This is a modern epos of contemporary Ukraine: a family saga of three generations, the events of which cover the period from the 1940s to the spring of 2004. Great literature and ugly truth about the power of the past over the future, about love, betrayal and death, about the original war of man for the right to be himself.

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Historical fiction

2017

The Voices of Babyn Yar

by Marianna Kiyanovska

The poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences and emotions of ordinary people going through the tragic events of Babyn Yar massacre in Kyiv. Conceived as a tribute to the dead, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed the horrors of human suffering. The book is illustrated by sketches of the Ukrainian artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko. The same sketches were used for the construction of the monument commemorating the victims of Babyn Yar. The works of the artist Zinoviy Tolkachov "Talescoten", series "Majdanek", 1944, as well as a photo of Dmytro Peysakhov from the series "Babyn Yar" are also used in the publication.

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Relationships

1996

Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex

by Oksana Zabuzhko

Called “the most influential Ukrainian book since independence,” Oksana Zabuzhko’s Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The sexual odyssey of the artist and poetess, unfolding in Ukraine and America at the end of the 20th century, turns into a true medieval mystery in which the heroine goes through the circles of recent Ukrainian history to meet the Devil face to face.

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Fiction

Dirt and Stars

by Ahmad Lufti

How do you imagine the Arabs before Islam? People who drink alcohol, milk goats, and fight each other for trivial reasons? Or perhaps you imagine them ignorant in an environment of darkness and sand? In this short story collection, Ahmad Lufti presents a fresh picture of the Arabian Peninsula before Islam, its legends and poets, its kings and its oral traditions. Inspired by the storytelling form of Scheherazade in “One Thousand and One Nights”—in which one narrator tells a story about another narrator, and another—as well as traditional Arab tales, Lufti’s stories explore and exalt Arab history and culture as well as larger themes of love, weakness, and power. Commentary from the Author: I am trying to reintroduce prose in Arab stories, as an attempt to praise authors whose books were highly underestimated. These works of art were deeply criticized for focusing on the pre-Islamic era or for adopting a classical rigid style. It is crucial to revive Arab stories, this pristine and rich field that would never fail to exist, even if all authors were to perish. This has proven of importance in modern stories, which are the reflection of the contemporary human. How can we refute modern stereotypes, if Arab literature is absent from today’s books?

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Fiction

June 2019

This Man and Music

By Anthony Burgess

by Christine Lee Gengaro, Andrew Biswell

This man and music asks two central questions: what can literature contribute to the art of composition, and how can music influence the writer? Anthony Burgess, famed novelist, journalist, and composer, answers these questions and many more. As a person uniquely qualified to look at the interconnectivity of music and literature from both sides, Burgess provides fascinating insights, drawing on his deep knowledge of both disciplines. The book contains eleven interconnected essays that touch on philosophical conundrums of art and adaptation, questions of meaning, and the author's own personal experience. It is a must-read for fans of Burgess who want to understand how music influenced the author's craft of writing. Part autobiography and part literary and musical analysis, This man and music is a unique artefact in the stunning output of a prolific artist.

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Historical fiction

2020

Cain

by Volodymyr Yeshkilev

"It is our time that will decide the future of countries and dynasties to come" said the Cardinal Mazarini's spy to the young nobleman named Pavel Moshkovsky, who will later become the ruler of Ukraine under title of Hetman Teteria. And he was right - the middle of the XVII century started a New Age of European history and drew the apocalyptic outlines of the world in the twilight of which we now live. The dark silhouette of the Biblical figure from the Book of Genesis, who was the firstborn child of Adam and Eve and committed a great sin of killing thy own brother overshadows the last four centuries of the world’s history. Volodymyr Eshkilev dives deep into the secrets of the castles and their rulers in his historical novel "Cain", the second of the trilogy "Cursed Hetmans". The reader will recognise the characters from the author’s previous novel called “Union” and will meet many new historical figures who lived and work during the period called “Ruin”. During the “Ruin” the hetmanate of Teteria, one of the most stipulated and disgraced rulers of Ukraine, held power. Eshkilev offers his own unique and unexpected interpretation of this historical figure. The events of the novel take place in beautiful and artistic surroundings and reflect on political, diplomatic, and even occult affairs of the XVII century.

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Fiction

2021

Eye on Egypt: Café Riche

by Maisoon Saqer

The book opens a unique door to the history of Cairo and its journey from a social and cultural perspective and aims to build a new and different narrative for this history—one that shows Cairo as a cosmopolitan, multicultural city. Cairo’s Cafe Riche has a deep cultural history and a broad creative and social heritage. Saqer describes it as “the site where endless friendships are established between the café and history.” Saqer’s narrative is not just about the small café, but rather constitutes observance and analysis of the presence of this café in the history of Egypt and how we can view many events surrounding it. Here there is no separation between the political and the cultural, between the historical, the social, and the artistic. The book combines history and narrative, which makes it a documented historical biography on the one hand and a creative work on the other. It also documents an important era in Egypt’s cultural history by examining the cultural and social transformations in modern Egyptian history and highlighting prominent intellectuals and creators associated with the cafe and the history of intellectual life in Egypt.

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Fiction

2021

Strangers at Home

by Ezzat El-Kamhawi

The novel brings together residents of a multi-story building. In a world besieged by COVID-19, Ezzat El-Kamhawi’s new novel places its main characters in a fictional world dominated by isolation and obsessions, where people are forced to surrender to a crushing flood of memories. FROM THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: “The novel explores the pandemic and its impacts on social life in Egypt, by presenting examples of the people who suffered from the disease. Structurally, it interacts with other literary genres and combines realism and fantasy.”

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Fiction

2021

Composition Biography: Thoughts and Confusion Carry Me

by Said Bengrad

The book is a story that combines childhood living in the 1960s deserts, before current forms of technology and virtualization. In this narrative text, it was not a matter of resurrecting a moment in a fleeting life in a non-stop chronology, but of shaping it into concepts that reconstruct it in an abstract way. The text does not present an individual story, but rather redraws the boundaries of an entire generation’s experience, a generation that saw the light after Morocco’s independence, with all of its subsequent achievements, failures, victories, and tragedies. The narrator in the text does not present ready-made theories; instead, he captures life in its events and facts and elevates it to an abstract level pending contemplation. The event in the text is an excuse for restoring life in the form of a “human experience,” and that is the outlet for returning academic knowledge to its role as an incubator for people’s concerns as depicted by their narratives, stories, and beliefs. What people experience by instinct; the story turns into another story constructed in the abstract. We do not simply live, we also contemplate our own living, and this is the sublime function of narration.

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Fiction

2020

A Laughing Sun

by Bayan Al Safadi

These poetic tales for children address things around us such as the wall, the stone, the ear, the river, and others, humanize them, and present them as free verse poetry. It also includes an audio CD containing song versions of the tales, all of which are loaded with pedagogical, aesthetic, and humanitarian messages. The importance of “A Laughing Sun” stems from its adoption of the poetic tale in most poems. It carries implications for reverence of science, arts, freedom, and human diversity, and highlights the beauty of nature and the protection of the environment. The poems are replete with a sense of cheerfulness and humor, and the collection focuses on the imagination and stimulates both scientific and creative thinking.

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Fiction

2022

My Date With the Light

by Raja Malah

The character of the novel “My Date with the Light” was born with a rare disease that gradually eliminates her sense of sight. From an early age, she realized that she was in a struggle with time and loss. Who said that this little girl in that remote village between its harsh mountains and deep valleys will one day be able to turn her date with darkness into a date with light, insight, and hope? She left her village in search of scientific horizons and dreamy expanses. Twenty years later, she decided to return to her hometown, believing in her role in assisting the children of her village. In her cabin, between the night silence and train whistles, she begins to tell her life story so we can learn about the details of her childhood, her handicap, her family, her village that languishes in poverty and destitution... To witness how she was finally able to make her way towards achieving her dream with rare courage, and touch the light of success, despite losing sight. Age Range: 9-12 years

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Literature & Literary Studies

September 2017

The Pianoplayers

by Anthony Burgess

by Will Carr, Paul Wake, Andrew Biswell

This novel is one of Anthony Burgess's most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The Pianoplayers is a funny, moving, autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool. Fully annotated and with a new introduction, this is an authoritative text for a new generation of readers. Part of the forthcoming Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess, this book offers an opportunity to reappraise an unjustly neglected novel important to our understanding of Burgess's wider oeuvre. The 2017 Burgess centenary makes this a key moment for reflection on the life and work of a major figure in twentieth century letters.

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Fiction

September 2017

A Vision of Battlements

by Anthony Burgess

by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.

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Fiction

April 2017

My Cat and I Miss You Very Much

by Yanborenchangan

This is a book telling lovely and warm stories between pets and human beings.

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Fiction

January 2017

Farewells on Earth

by LIU Wen

LIU Wen, winner of Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards, records stories about love, growing-up and courage of life in a huge, indifferent city.

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Fiction

January 2015

Back in Time

by Jiu Yehui

This novel narrates growth and love stories among a group of youngsters, who spent their most precious years together. From high school to university, their stories are our stories. This is a classical work of Chinese youth literature, and has been adapted into both movie and TV series in China.

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Fiction

Transcendence

by Shi Shuqing

This novel tells two stories of an ancient Chinese monk and a modern young lady. With elegant narration, the author discusses love, lust, and Buddhism. Crossing the time of 1500 years, the fate of protagonists interweaved in Nanjing, the city of Buddhism.

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Fiction

August 2018

The Language of Go Chess

by Chu Fujin

This is a story about Chinese Go chess.The protagonist Xiao Wang lives in the North Lane. Go chess connects his life with other chess players such as Jiang Chong, Liu Yun, Tao Song, Chen Xiaodong and Chang Shuo. Through this novel, we see the modern life, the modern psychology and the modern society of China.

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Fiction

January 2014

Snuggling

by Ding Jie

This novel tells a story of two young people’s spiritual love during a car accident in a Utopian-like northern country. It is an Oriental dream between a young man and a young woman. The novel won “Asian Youth Literature Prize” in 2014. Korean and English copyright has been sold.

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