Literature

“Leviathan” is Boris Akunin’s third novel in the well-known series about the adventures of the aristocratic detective Erast Fandorin. Written in the “closed-room mystery” genre, where the circle of suspects is confined to a single location, the story is set in 1878.

“Propisy” is a unique literary anthology founded on the initiative of Ukrainian PEN and New PEN to support young Ukrainian authors. It is a collection that captures the voices of a new generation of Ukrainian literature and serves as the first serious step toward professional writing for many of them. The anthology is based on texts by participants in the eponymous “Propisy” festival-workshop, where young writers work with experienced Ukrainian writer-mentors.

“The Bright Path: The Story of One Concentration Camp” by Stanislav Aseyev is a deeply moving, documentary-style autobiographical book that stands as one of the most important accounts of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. Writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev spent 962 days in captivity in occupied Donetsk (from May 2017 to December 2019). Most of that time, he was held in “Izolyatsia”—a former art center that the occupying authorities turned into a closed, secret prison, effectively a modern-day concentration camp, which the prisoners and their tormentors themselves called “The Bright Path” (after the name of the street where it is located).

"Secondhand Time" (translated in some editions as "The End of the Red Man") is one of the most famous and profound books by the Belarusian writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich. This work serves as the epic conclusion to her renowned cycle, "Voices of Utopia."