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In a land torn apart by war, two men on opposite sides are about to find out they have one thing in common. Wounded and emotionally tortured, they are taken in by Anni, a young war widow. None of them understands the others' languages, but it doesn't seem to matter. After a hard day at work on Anni's farm, who needs words?
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"[The author] cites Hindu yoga systems to show how we can defeat time through any spiritual practice - such as meditation - that dissolves the ego. He shows how quantum physics supports this claim and explains in simple terms such phenomena as black holes, wormholes, and parallel universes. [His] ... scenarios help us imagine what traveling to the past or the future through mind yoga would be like" -- English edition.
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He is a man with phenomenal abilities, who is subject to what is not subject to others. She is an ordinary girl with great ambitions, who is very disappointed in reality. He always remains in the shadows. She goes crazy with loneliness. His vicious, vain desire to feel like God will lead to a worldwide scandal. Its linear, predictable future will take a sharp turn for the monstrous truth. His life will be deprived of independence and freedom. Her...
5) Beguny
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"Where are we from? Where did you come from here? Where are we going? In the novel from one of the most original world writers, Olga Tokarchuk, thoughts of travel intertwine with mysterious stories related to each other by the themes of death, movement, prolongation of life and the mystery of the human body. We are all travelers in this world: someone wanders with purpose, someone without. Someone moves through time, someone through space. What does...
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"Roman "Ubitʹ Bobrykina. Istorii͡a odnogo ubiĭstva", prinesshiĭ svoemu avtoru Aleksandre Nikolaenko premii͡u Russkiĭ Buker, byl prini͡at chitai͡ushcheĭ auditorieĭ protivorechivo. Rasskaz o ne vpolne zdorovom glavnom geroe Sashe Shishine s ego krovozhadnoĭ idee fixe odni sravnivai͡ut s russkoĭ klassikoĭ, drugie nazyvai͡ut ėksperimentalʹnym, nekotorye schitai͡ut bessoderzhatelʹnym, a kto-to rassmatrivaet kak metafizicheskoe vyskazyvanie....
10) Gospoza Bovari
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"Emma Bovary feels trapped in a loveless marriage and indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs that can only end in her destruction."--
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