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Did working class heroin of Soviet Russia survived torture by the Germans only to satisfy the sexual awakening of elementary school children who had to learn about her heritage?
Katherine Farquhar lost her first husband and is now re-married. Traveling through Europe to meet her spouse, she encounters a ghost from the past, an incident that may alter her notion of what love and marriage are.
“The war, The war – but which war? How much have I longed for liberation from it and to forget the day that it broke out.” His lover left him and now an exiled Iraqi man stops to think whether the war and his longings for his home town Basra are the reasons she left.
The immigrants in Ellis Island are willing to do anything to get into America, the golden land. A beautiful Jewish girl is about to teach the doctor who decides their fate a lesson in survival.
Young Juanito is given an incomprehensible deed to execute, which leaves the fate of his entire family in his hands. “El Verdugo” – the executioner – is a dramatic tale based, according to its author, on an actual incident from the days of Napoleon’s war in Spain.
Sarah Khan was looking for ghosts in Berlin, and then she found Anne, who has an abundance of them. Endowed with supernatural abilities and an army of not so scary ghosts, Anne is able to threaten even the all mighty Stasi.
This story proposes an impossible experiment in an impossible situation. Is there place for art or beauty in the most contentious bunker on earth, hours before the end of WWII?
After the story’s intoxicating journey through an Istanbul suspended between yesterday and today, the reader takes the ferry back to more familiar shores, their way lit by the ever-present moon.
“External circumstances alone were capable of jolting us out of apathy and distracting us from slowly approaching death.” The memory of a great author from the Russian Gulag.
Nora is leaving her little village in Ireland to go to London, but no one knows why she is actually leaving and what horrors she will have to encounter before she comes back. A classic from the Irish language.
A granfather tells his grandson, a grown man, precisely how he got the green number tattooed on his arm. What happened there? What does the polish boxer have to do with it? A great story about the power of words.
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