Authors:
Souad
Translated by:
Račienė, Laima
Translated from:
French
Published on:
2020
“Burned Alive” is a true story that happened in Palestine, in which Suada, a now forty-year-old woman, tells the story of her youth and life in the homeland, especially the situation of girls and women and the barbaric customs in Palestine that kill thousands of them senselessly every year.
A girl born into a Palestinian family is a real misfortune, that no one wants, and it is not even strange that many of them disappear without a trace, parents also often stress that having a sheep is much more useful and better than a girl. Girls work the hardest jobs, have no childhood, no toys, are beaten, strangled, burned and that is considered the norm More
Authors:
Shafak, Elif
Translated by:
Razmaitė, Rūta
Translated from:
English
Published on:
2020
Elif Shafak’s novel “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World” tells the story of the protagonist’s life as she is dying. The idea of the book is very interesting in that each memory (chapter) is associated with a certain taste or smell. This allows the reader to think and try to guess what this smell / taste might remind Leila.
Tequila Leila is lying in a garbage container with slowly disappearing signs of life. However, she did not know that death is so slow and can take as long as 10 minutes and 38 seconds. During this seemingly short period of time, Leila once again experiences the most memorable moments of her life, which gradually reveal her complicated past. She remembers her family life which was full of lies, her sexual exploitation, her escape to Istanbul and her living in a hostel. But among the dark memories, she emphasizes the lucky ones – about her best friends. More
Authors:
B. Yehoshua, Abraham
Translated by:
Gudelytė, Kristina
Translated from:
Hebrew
Published on:
2018
“Mr. Mani” is a novel about six generations of Mani family. The action takes place from the middle of 18th century until the end of 20th century. However, the timeline of events is not chronologically consistent. The author Abraham B. Yehoshua not only talks about the historical events of that time, but also reveals the inside world of a person who has appeared in the middle of political disagreements, repressions and cruelty. More
Authors:
Saadawi, Ahmed
Translated by:
Geležauskas, Matas
Translated from:
English
Published on:
2018
“Frankenstein in Baghdad” is a book that combines the cruel reality of everyday life in Iraq and supernatural fiction using the motifs of a classic horror story.
The story takes place in US-occupied Baghdad, where every day is marked by explosions, shootings, wreckages and corpses. Hadi, a junk-dealer living here, wanders the streets of the town. From the streets covered with ruins and debris, he collects the scattered body parts of bomb victims, brings it home and stitches into one corpse. He wants for the authorities to recognize individual parts as humans and properly bury them. More
Authors:
Mišani, Dror
Translated by:
Gudelytė, Kristina
Translated from:
Hebrew
Published on:
2017
Dror Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime fiction writer. He was born in Holon – a city in the south from Tel Aviv. Now Dror Mishani lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and children and teaches the history of detective fiction in Tel Aviv University. “The Missing File” is the writer’s debut work published in 2011. It is the first novel in the series of three crime fictions about a police inspector Avraham Avraham. The author’s birthplace Holon is the main place of the novel. More
Authors:
Shafak, Elif
Translated by:
Žalytė-Steiblienė, Danguolė
Translated from:
English
Published on:
2017
Elif Shafak is titled as one of the most famous and prominent writers in Turkey. The author of the book “The Architect’s apprentice” explicitly and vividly describes various places, scents and people of Turkey and India. The book also mentions life experiences and hardships of the main characters. All of this helps to delve into the ages of 16th century’s Ottoman Empire. According to the author, the idea of the book started developing quite spontaneously: whilst driving through More
Authors:
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
Translated by:
Ališanka, Eugenijus
Translated from:
English
Published on:
2017
Poet of the Middle Ages, the Sufi mystic of Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the most popular poets in the Western world. There is nothing new that the name of Rumi in Lithuania was heard at least for those who were interested in Oriental culture and poetry, but his work is still a little known. Therefore, it’s urgent to introduce a poetry book: Rumi’s little book of life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit – to collect translations from various works of Rumi and to allow the More
Authors:
Aslan, Reza
Translated by:
Ardickas, Zigmantas
Translated from:
English
Published on:
2017
Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American international writer, a scholar of religions, professor, commentator, host, Emmy nominated producer, and the author of three internationally best-selling books. One of those bestsellers is Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth published in 2015, in which the author introduces the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth in an elegantly way by explaining the time and birth of religion. As this author is internationally well known, there is no surprise that his work receives attention and in Lithuania. Jonas Mačiulis (2017) in his review of this book concludes his work with a question: would this author also describe the Islamic prophet Muhammad using similar methods as in the book of Jesus? More
Authors:
Yehoshua, Abraham B.
Translated by:
Gudelytė, Kristina
Translated from:
Hebrew
Published on:
2016
Abraham B. Yehoshua (born in 1936) – he is one of the most prominent Jerusalems writers. His novel “A Woman in Jerusaem” is written about forty years old woman who was killed in a market place during terrorist attack and a man who is working in one of the most popular Jarusalems bakery as human resources management division. He got a task to take a good care of now dead woman’s body. This novel is divided into three parts: ,,The manager”, ,,The Mission” and ,,The Journey”. More
Authors:
Shafk, Elif
Translated by:
Pulokas Gediminas
Translated from:
English
Published on:
2016
“The Flea Palace” is a comical novel about the daily lives of neighbors in an apartment complex.
The Bonbon Palace is an apartment building built on a burial ground in the centre of Istanbul. Ten different families and their stories are hidden inside the Bonbon palace. Some of the main figures of the story are twins hairstylists, Madam Auntie, a student Saidar and his dog named Gaba, grandpa Haji Haji and his relatives, as well as a nameless teller of the story which not only reveals his personal story but also talks about the details of his neighbors’ lives. The author of the More
