Motivated by career ambition the wife of middle-aged Mood decided to break up the family and leave him with bringing up their two boys. After a year the strain of hs teaching job and domestic chores without a mother to help got to him and he decided to get away from it all with a year's paid leave of absence. He boarded a futuristic hydrocosmic interplanetary liner to set sail for Earth's doppelganger Planet-II--And he ran into Nara at the bar! She was almost a generation younger and could've...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia, and displays a variety of works by authors who all come from different backgrounds. Some of them are well-known not only locally but also internationally due to festival appearances and translations into European languages; among them are Gennady Aigi, Gennady Alexeyev, Vladimir Aristov, Sergey Biryukov, Konstantin K...

‘Aanvankelijk zat Ahmed in een gevangenistoren in het centrum van Damascus. Daar werd op een dag een man geslagen, zo hard dat hij schreeuwde of hij levend gevild werd. Asma was net drie geworden, ze stapte met haar kleine beentjes voor Hala uit, keek over de reling naar beneden maar zei niets.’ Een halfjaar woont Lieve Joris in een volkswijk in Damascus en deelt er het leven van haar vriendin Hala. Nadat haar man Ahmed om politieke redenen in de gevangenis belandt, maakt Hala kennis met ...