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A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick'A tragicomic masterpiece' Daily TelegraphAll that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.Viktor is an aspiring writer in Ukraine with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company.Although Viktor would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378206Author Vladimir SorokinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

'Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK . . . Confined to a desk job by his superiors to keep him out of the way, Arkady Renko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378183Author Vladimir SorokinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

'Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic, find' ObserverDiscover the international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by one of Ukraine's most highly acclaimed authors.When the corpse of a distinguished general...

Moscow, 1985. Four teenagers - Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol and cigarettes - yearn for a world of Levi's, Queen, foreign travel and the freedom to choose their fates...

'The later Renko novels are stark, spare and beautiful, like trees in winter. Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON ARKADY RENKO IS BACK . . . Renko has been confined to...

Monks devious and devout - and an age-defying royal pair - chronicle the history of their fictional island in this witty critique of Western civilization and history itself.Eugene Vodolazkin, internationally acclaimed novelist and scholar of medieval...

"A work of earnest, grounded, and ultimately hopeful testimony of selfhood at the brink." -Ocean Vuong 1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across their land, the Morozov family finds itself consigned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376332Author Vladimir SorokinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to investigate a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless murders. In each case, the victim is curiously dressed and posed in extravagantly arranged settings. ...

The Big Green Tent is the kind of book for which the term "Russian novel" was invented. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in 1950s Moscow and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419770951Author Katya ApekinaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Translated Book Award (Fiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781934824368Author Mikhail ShishkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Open LetterPublisher...

"A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short...

Rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a frantic chase with only one winner in this gripping thriller. Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Now the bad guys want to do the same to her. Jane's clients come to her for...

Keynote Set during the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, a unique and dazzling debut fiction - that has already gained praise and prizes - that combines history, folklore, oral history and news reports to give a human face and understanding to the complexity...

Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardBest Book of the Year - New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review'Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376868Author Maxim OsipovFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Ivo Andric Grand Prize for best novel of 2022From the INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR Eugene Vodolazkin - winner of the BIG BOOK AWARD, the LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD, and the READ RUSSIA...

From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, New York Times bestselling author and Russia's greatest living absurdist, comes an elaborate family drama, social satire, and burlesque of twists, coincidences, and hijinks. Kidnapped is a madcap crime spree that caroms...

From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent. Offended Sensibilities chronicles a series of sudden deaths that occur among officials of a provincial Russian town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609458119Author Mikhail ShevelevFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa EditionsWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221448Author Oksana VasyakinaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult