Jamal Eddin Shamil is only eight years old when he is stolen from his native Caucasus Mountains and whisked away by Russian soldiers to the glittering court at St. Petersburg. There Czar Nicholas takes a special interest in his exotic Muslim...
Akcja Białej gardenii rozpoczyna się pod koniec II wojny światowej w wiosce na granicy chińsko-rosyjskiej. Książka opisuje historię matki i córki, rozdzielonych wojenną zawieruchą. W Harbinie,...
A novel based on the life story of a remarkable woman, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it
I want to find out how they behave when they’re free.
Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her...
He took part in a massacre, can he ever forgive himself?
1944. The German armies are collapsing on all fronts. In a church in a remote French village, 250 women and children are ruthlessly slaughtered by desperate Germans acting under orders...
Translated from the Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach, woodcuts by Lopata. A short history of the Ukrainian Cossacks has been included as a foreward to give the English speaking reader background knowledge of the events taking place in this novel. This book...
After a drunken feast in the year 1067, Leif Blackhair's life takes a terrible turn: He's accused of raping and strangling a Jarlabanke daughter, member of one of Sweden's most powerful Viking clans. And he doesn't remember a thing.
Only when he's...
Cormac McCarthy is the author of The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle...