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Children’s First Book of Chess
“If you want to introduce chess to your child, this colorful book is capable of solving the first and most important task: to captivate him or her with this royal game. Once done, the rest will follow.” – Vladimir Kramnik, 14th World Chess Champion. “A really nice book about chess for children. It introduces you to the game with fun stories that make it easy to understand what the game is about. I hope many kids will be introduced to the royal game in this enjoyable way.” – Viswanathan Anand, 15th World Chess Champion. “Dear Children, please enjoy this delightful book with beautiful illustrations! I do hope that through this book, you’ll fall in love with chess and it will br...
The Vow
Can something that exists merely as a literary text, say a story, come about in real life? Can reality, to put it another way, steal something from literature, the same way literature steals from reality? Such is the question that Libor Hrach, the author of The Adventures of the Wise Badger, fields one evening over a hedonistic supper in a tony Brno restaurant from Kamil Modráček, himself a burrowing animal of sorts, in Jiří Kratochvil’s novel The Vow. ‘Quite simply, I said, everything that has been written either has already happened, or is about to. You write a story, and you can never be sure if what you’re writing isn’t actually taking place two streets away from where you si...
Tefil
In Rafał Wojasiński’s new engaging masterpiece Tefil, we come across a curious – and eerie – situation. A young man named Rozmaryn finds a photograph depicting his mother in the company of a stranger. He lost both his parents at an early age, and never even knew his mother. So he sets off in search of that stranger, and this leads him to one of the most articulate, yet unsettling and possibly mentally handicapped characters as can be found anywhere in literature: Tefil. A balding and somewhat odiferous inhabitant of a garret flat in a sleepy town somewhere in Poland, never married, Tefil, who spent his working years as a village factotum, now exists as something of a self-interested ...
The Big Fellow
This powerfully-written first novel from Ukrainian author Anastasiia Marsiz is set in and around Cupra Marittima, a small seaside town on Italy’s Adriatic coast. So closely is the area described, the reader could find their way around without difficulty. They might easily go there expecting to find the Chalet Martina, a seafront restaurant opening onto the beach. To enter the restaurant is to step into the territory of fiction, but in Marsiz’s expert hands the boundary is crossed unconsciously. At the Chalet, we meet Martina Marino, her husband Adriano, their two sons and two daughters – about each of whom there is a story to be lovingly told. Even before our first encounter with Marti...
The Night Reporter
The events of the novel The Night Reporter take place in Lviv in 1938. Journalist Marko Krylovych, nicknamed the “night reporter” for his nightly coverage of the life of the city’s underbelly, takes on the investigation of the murder of a candidate for president of the city government. While doing this, he ends up in various love intrigues as well as criminal adventures, sometimes risking his life. Police Commissioner Roman Obukh, who was suspended by administrators from the murder investigation, aids him in an unofficial capacity. Meanwhile, German, and Soviet spies become involved, and Polish counterintelligence also takes an interest in the investigation. The picturesque and vividly described criminal world of Lviv of that time appears before us – dive bars, batyars, and establishments for women of ill repute. The reader will have to unravel riddle after riddle with the characters against the background of the anxious mood of Lviv’s residents, who are living in anticipation of war. The Night Reporter is a compelling journey into the world of the enthralling multicultural past of the city.
On the Road to Freedom
‘“Brother, you have another pair of boots,” Jaroslav Hašek said to me, grabbing me by the sleeve. “How do you know?” “Yesterday you were in army boots, and today you’ve got civilian ones on. I’d buy those army boots off you.” And in this way my high-laced boots, which I was given by the Austrian Red Cross way back in Beryozovka-za-Baikalom, came into Hašek’s possession. It was a silly thing to do. Not because I should have known that I wouldn’t get a kopeck out of Hašek in exchange for them — at bottom, I did know that — but as a former soldier, I should have thought about reserves. Life is a war and in this war, sometimes boots become casualties.’ Thus ruefull...
Khatyn
It is a quiet place, with lush green grass covering the location of the former Belarusian village. A village that was burned to the ground with its inhabitants in 1943. Anyone familiar with this small corner of Eastern Europe is chilled to the bone by the events that transpired there, and the village’s name Khatyn has now come to embody a horrific national tragedy. But tragedy is not all this name embodies, for it also reminds people of the tremendous courage of those who fought for the life and freedom of their country. It is the story of this village and the events that surround its annihilation that are the focus of Ales Adamovich’s novel Khatyn, which was written on the basis of hist...
Głosy / Voices
In December 1970, amid a harsh winter and an even harsher economic situation, the ruling communist regime in Poland chose to drastically raise prices on basic foodstuffs. Just before the Christmas holidays, for example, the price of fish, a staple of the traditional Christmas Eve meal, rose nearly 20%. Frustrated citizens took to the streets to protest, demanding the repeal of the price-hikes. Things took an especially dramatic turn in the northern regions near the Baltic shore — later, the cradle of the Solidarity movement, which would eventually spark the fall of communism in Poland and throughout Central and Eastern Europe — where the government moved against their citizens with the M...
OPSTAND
Enorme kudden vee zijn onder leiding van de hond Rex in opstand gekomen tegen de heerszuchtige mens. Onafzienbare massa’s trekken richting het oosten, de opkomende zon tegemoet, naar een paradijselijk land van vrijheid en geluk, waar geen mens ooit een voet heeft gezet. Onderweg worden ze geconfronteerd met dieren uit de wildernis en overvallen door de meest extreme natuurverschijnselen en weersomstandigheden. Met wreed geweld en mooie beloften wordt het vee door honden en wolven almaar voortgedreven, terwijl de gelederen voortdurend worden uitgedund. Totdat er binnen de opstand een nieuwe opstand uitbreekt.
De Bibliothecaris
Aleksej Vjazintsev is een 27-jarige man uit Oekraïne met een mislukte artistieke carrière. Na de val van de Sovjet-Unie reist hij af naar een stadje in Rusland om de flat van zijn wijlen oom te verkopen. Al snel komt hij erachter dat oom Maxim de titel van Bibliothecaris had en deel uitmaakte van een duistere, gewelddadige wereld met haar eigen regels, erecodes en Boeken – een wereld waaruit geen weg terug is... Bibliothecaris combineert diepe nostalgie naar de idealen (doch – helaas – niet de realiteit) van de Sovjet-Unie met fantastische, maar steeds menselijke verhaallijnen.
