Book Shop

Book shops are all different as each one is like a little world, precious in its own way. Ours, being small and cosy, is rather more like a book stall.

It was created with the support of The Baboon Family network and our active participation. What our petite book shop lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality: this is the Master Klass promise. Here you will find books on architecture and design, quality modern literature for children, books in English, French and Spanish, Russian for foreign learners, as well as a selection of modern fiction. In addition, you can also obtain great films on DVD and moleskin notepads. The friendly atmosphere comes for free, and is in abundance.

In the near future we are planning to hold meetings with writers and book presentations for both grown-up readers as well as children and teens. We are going to entertain Marina and Sergei Dyachenko and many other interesting people as our guests.

ATTENTION! In October we will begin our subscription to the British newspapers The Financial Times and The Sunday Times! From now on you will always be able to have a flick through a new issue of these internationally-known publications!

What’s new at the Book Shop?

Ray Garrison, Eric Norin. Management Account. _- K. Maximum, 2009. – 1024 pages

For many years, this book has been a world bestseller and helped over 2 million readers to sort out the intricacies of management account.

This book can help you deal with the main problem of management accounts: to provide executives with information to make correct decisions in the area of effective business management. The book defines and explains what sort of account information needs to be gained and how a manager is to interpret it for making his or her own operations plan, as well as when controlling operations of an enterprise and taking decisions.

The installation of management accounts in companies will not only increase the transparency of their in-company processes but will often lead to strategic company changes, including its product package and staff motivation system. This book can become invaluable for owners, managers, company financiers, business school tutors, MBA students, business consultants an all those who are involved in the process of decision making on pricing, expenses and obtaining resources.

Luko Dashvar

Village Is Not People. – Kharkiv: Family leisure time club. – 2009. – 272 pages

I am mistrustful of Ukrainian awards, and I didn’t trust the Word Coronation, either… But as soon as I opened the book Village Is Not People by Luko Dashvar, I couldn’t put it down from the very start. However, I didn‘t think it would last. The shock of each graphic and realistic verb after another: the author turned out to be a woman. Surely, it would seem, Salman Rushdie in a skirt. It is far simpler, but just as mysterious, if not a more mystic realism.

The Ukrainian village is a special organism unscathed by time. It is an organism instilling awe, excitement and horror. All this is rendered by Luko Dashvar with such vividness that at times it seems you’re walking along an unpaved road in the darkest corners of Ukraine. The unassuming and frequently-referenced story of ‘Lolita’ is given a new life, becoming surrounded by paradoxes: like a boomerang, it takes you back to the story once you think of giving up on it. It is because the plot is unpredictable, just like the village itself, like the acts of its dwellers and vicissitudes of their fates: they live in such anguish and die with such lightness. While it is true that the Word Coronation is not quite the Booker Prize, Luko Dashvar is far from being Salman Rushdie. But the birth of a new Ukrainian epoch, the one of village and country life, can’t but make one happy and most importantly gives new food for thought over what sort of country we live in. And if questions are born in one’s mind, then the book is worth reading. Who knows if Dashvar and her novel will change life for the better?

Igor Zotov
Out. (A Novel of Upbringing) –M.: AST. Astrel, 2009. – 608 pages

Journalists have been finding it difficult to limit themselves to mere columns for a long time now: their observations more often than not swell up, overgrow and turn into novels: both good and bad ones. Igor Zotov, a Moscow journalist, has followed suit and written a book, his first, as a matter of fact, and a good one at that. It is a book about the love for the Motherland and hatred for people, a book of wandering and coming home. Only the home is foreign and the hero doesn’t manage to become a messiah. So he, a young son of Russian immigrants, keeps roaming the big wide world and lives first in America, then in Denmark. The novel comes together from pieces like a jigsaw puzzle: you’ll find here an obsession with a Dostoyevsky idea (a murder obsession, that is), and the Biblical roaming of a prodigal son, and Chekhov’s irony, and lots more, all of which serves as the basis for the building of a “Russian” novel. It all makes one wonder how on earth the author manages to structure such a novel using real facts and such.