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Au début de l'été 1833, Vladimir Petrovitch, âgé alors de seize ans, prépare sans zèle excessif ses examens d'entrée à l'université dans la propriété de ses parents, non l...
By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unrelia...
From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living w...
В сборник вошли повести и рассказы Н. С. Лескова, русского классика XIX века, подарившего мировой литературе «Очарованного странника» и «Леди Макбет…», «Тупейного художник...
Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captains Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inex...
Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. C...
Andrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev: a novelist, poet and critic, he became a leading figure amongst Russian Symbolist writers. Born in Moscow in 1...
In 1869, Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky, whom we watch as he ob...
"In his enormous epic of Cossack life during the Revolution... Mikhail Sholokhov has achieved even greater power, sustained narrative gift and stirring human truthfulness....
THE GIFT is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First Worl...
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a...
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel HARD TO BE A GOD is considered one of the greatest of...
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a cou...
Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The s...
The story takes place in the men's cancer ward of a hospital in a city in Soviet Central Asia. The patients in Ward 13 all suffer from cancer, but differ in age, personali...
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those misfits who are compelled, in spite of the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artefacts t...
Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage C...
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author - "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; "Old-Fashioned Farmers," a pleasant depiction of an elde...
The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Funeral Party, “In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents–four kinds of love. Could it really be that i...
