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The Valley of Magicians

Authors: Mehdi Abdullayev, Kamal
Translated by: Lapinskienė, Lionė
Translated from: Russian
Published on: 2013

“The valley of magicians” – is the intellectual story about the inner feelings of people, their relationships between each other which cause moral dilemmas and helps to reveal the true values ​​of life. In this novel, real and spiritual worlds are constantly colliding, showing big differences and mismatches between each other. This volume tells the story about Karavanbashi – a steady traveler, who is torn apart by internal suffering and his desire to get to the valley, in order to find a magician and bring him to the city. Karavanbashi who is leading the caravan towards the home asked his faithful follower Khaja Ibrahim ago to go to the valley of magicians which is shrouded in mystery and is located in the foothills of the invisible mountain. More

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Authors: Oz, Amos
Translated by: Gudelytė, Kristina
Translated from: Hebrew
Published on: 2013

Jews, go back to Palestine, – this is what in almost every corner of the world inscriptions on the walls were shouting. Growing anti-Semitism in Europe and repressions during World War II, led millions of Jews to listen to this advice. Now the world again suddenly stood up shouting Jews, get out from Palestine. World War II experiences, the British administration in Palestine and painful birth of the State of Israel, entwined with personal experiences, family … More

Fourty Rules of Love

Authors: Shafak, Elif
Translated by: Drazdauskienė, Rasa
Translated from: English
Published on: 2012

Ella lives typically: kids, husband, housekeeping, but she feels alone and misunderstood, so she decides to get a job in a literature agency. Her first task is to write a review of novel “Sweet blasphemy”. Reading this book Ella feels strange – values of this book are totally different from hers but the book still comforts her. She starts writing letters to the author and this is how their love story begins. This friendship shows to Ella the power of love in which she never believed before. At the same time the plot of “Sweet blasphemy” is told. The whirling dervish Shams of Tabriz and mystic Rumi are both willing to find their soul mates. More

Timbuctoo

Authors: Shah, Tahir
Translated by: Drazdauskienė, Rasa
Translated from: English
Published on: 2012

Story begins when Royal African Committee decides to finance an expedition to Africa’s heart, the city made out of gold – Timbuctoo. People are motivated to make investments by saying not to give it to French who already sent an expedition out and assuring them that the expedition will pay off and be very successful. The goal of this expedition is to show the world, that even though England lost its colonies in America, their crown is still strong and unbeaten. Of course, when a young and famished American shows on the streets of London, the Royal African Committee is not very happy. American is saying that he visited the king of Timbuctoo and didn’t see any gold. More

My Name Is Red

Authors: Pamuk, Orhan
Translated by: Pilkauskaitė-Kariniauskienė, Justina
Translated from: Turkish
Published on: 2012

Later in the book, more unusual characters appear. Some of them being a dog, coin, demon or even the color red. All of the characters address the reader as if he belongs to their world, making him feel like he is a part of the story.

At first sight it might look like stories don’t share anything in common, as if it’s just different tales told one after another. However as you continue reading, the stories starts merging into one big picture, which shows you not just a mysterious crime fiction but also a love story. Because the color red isn’t all about blood. It’s about love, too. More

Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman’s Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail

Authors: Nemat, Marina
Translated by: Groblytė, Jovita
Translated from: English
Published on: 2011

Autobiographical book tells the story of the writers Marina Nemat experience in famous Evin prison in Tehran. The major part of people\’s names in the book have been changed and the experiences of prisoners attributed to others. The author tried to restore all the dialogs as thoroughly as possible.

The story begins on January 15, 1982, when the author was just sixteen years old. Because of a resistance against the Islamic government, which was not proved, she was arrested and brought into the prison, where brutally tortured and luckily after avoiding the shooting was sentenced to life imprisonment. More

My Father’s Notebook

Authors: Abdolah, Kader
Translated by: Rygertaitė, Saulė
Translated from: Duch
Published on: 2011

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In the Name of Honor

Authors: Mukhtar Mai
Translated by: Karazijaitė, Jūratė
Translated from: French
Published on: 2011

”In the Name of Honor” is a true Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai story that begins with a crime against humanity. When speculations that Mukhtar twelve junior brother had met a girl from another clan, in convened village court, they require compensation for damage to women\’s honour. Sacrifice for a crime: Mukhtar is condemned for group rape, for alleged brother’s crime, who eventually detected as false.

The sentence was executed! 2002 June 22, for desecrated 28-year-old woman is extremely difficult to recover, especially in an environment where women are stigmatized not only by offenders, but can be misunderstood by surrounding environment. Following the example of other women, raped and humiliated Mukhtar, it seems, there remained only one way out – suicide. However this woman\’s determination, courage and persistence, because of the fear to loose her live and for safety of loved ones, as well as blind faith in its own country and its justice made her speak. More

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

Authors: Shah, Tahir
Translated by: Drazdauskienė, Rasa
Translated from: English
Published on: 2011

The book begins very vividly talking about his trip to Morocco, and the non-recognition of indigenous people as real Moroccans, who married a local woman. Were ready for the idea of ​​torture. This is a special word, who can express not only in some areas, construction and life in the beginning of a site that the writer continues, as we remember his life and learning to re-live in another culture. More

The Bastard of Istanbul

Authors: Shafak, Elif
Translated by: Bielskytė, Eglė
Translated from: English
Published on: 2010

‘‘The Bastard of Istanbul‘‘ is a mysterious novel in which both past and present overlaps, a painful history of Turkish and Armenian people is being discussed. Also, roots of two different families mengle and secrets of those families finally turn out.
The begining of a book is quite tragical. A young turkish woman goes to see a doctor in order to end her pregnancy but things work out different, thus, change a lot. Further writer tells a story about teen girl who lives in Istanbul. Her name is Asya Kazanci and she is quite strange nihilist. Her life is tough because she lives with six aunties and somehow all men of their family pass away suddenly at early age. At the same time a portret of Armanoush Tchakhmakhchian is being developed. Armanoush is an Armenian origin American who lives in Arizona with her paranoid mother and Turk stepfather. Sometimes she travels to San Francisco to visit her father‘s family. Contrary to Asya, Armanoush enjoys life and wants to get to know as much as possible about her family roots, for this reason, one day she decides to come to Istanbul. More

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