Novyĭ sbornik rasskazov znamenitogo serbskogo kinorezhissera, muzykanta i pisateli͡a Ėmira Kusturit͡sy "Sto bed" stal sensat͡sieĭ literaturnogo sezona v Evrope. Kazhetsi͡a, Kusturit͡sa voskreshaet v proze magicheskui͡u atmosferu takikh svoikh filʹmov, kak "Papa v komandirovke", "Zhiznʹ kak chudo", "Chernai͡a koshka, belyĭ kot". Tkanʹ zhizni s ee ustoi͡ami i tradit͡sii͡ami, semeĭnymi ritualami pod naporom politicheskikh obstoi͡atelʹstv...

"Fourteen-year-old Jory was so handsome, so gentle. And Bart had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the abandoned house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon the shrouded woman had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother." And soon Bart's transformation began... a transformation that led...

Set on four continents, stories about memory.

It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the...

The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw -- and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....