Russian & Former Soviet Union

SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006...

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm,...

Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for independent journalism. Her verse blends formal...

The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486817552Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)...

An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel...

Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the...

Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II-and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know...

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562382Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720791379Author Thomas SeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet...

Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Aleksandr Pushkin and generations of Russian poets to come. In...

Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis...

Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting...

These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534721Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged emigres and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781094637433Author The History HourFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173619Author Vasily GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated...

Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an...

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age...

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an...

A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in "becoming" a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798696605456Author Aleksandr TochkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013744198Author AnonymousFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 848g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542627436Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781980597278Author Jonathan AlienFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353368739Author Lev N Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy)Format PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539770985Author Irina MashinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535236300Author Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498086219Author General Sir Robert WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494885229Author Alexander Nicolaevich OstrovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976106453Author Irina MashinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950319268Author Maxim D ShrayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint M-Graphics Pub.Publisher M-Graphics Pub.Weight(grams) 133g