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  • The Naked Year

    by Boris Pilnyak ...
    Translated by Alexander R. Tulloch ...
    "One of the earliest . . . attempts to create a paradigm of 'the new prose' about the [Russian] Revolution . . . self-consciously experimental, openly modernist." — The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian LiteratureThe Naked Year, a flinchingly honest portrayal of life in post-Revolutionary Russia, catapulted author Boris Pilnyak into notoriety. The Naked Year follows the provincial ... Read more

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    by Boris Pasternak ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage International
    First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Doctor Zhivago

    by Pasternak Boris ...
    In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught up in the great events of politics and war that eventually destroy him and millions of others, Zhivago clings to the ... Read more

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  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.Considered the greatest short story writer, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Journey into the Whirlwind

    The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror

    by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg ...
    A woman's true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: "Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on ... Read more

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  • The Body Outside the Kremlin A Novel

    by James May ...
    Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor while others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a ... Read more

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  • The Beauties

    Essential Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Nicholas Slater Pasternak ...
    Series Book 1 - Pushkin Press Classics
    This beautiful collection of 13 classic Chekhov short stories is the perfect introduction to an icon of Russian literature.“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” —Raymond ChandlerWithout doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov’s short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Fixer

    A Novel

    by Bernard Malamud ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed ... Read more

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  • How Dare The Birds Sing

    Book One in the Love and Fate Series, #1

    by Marina Osipova ...
    Series Book 1 - the Love and Fate Series
    Are Lyuba and Günter star-crossed lovers? When they first meet in 1933 Soviet Russia, their young love is filled with hope and naiveté until Günter disappears. Her fleeting relationship with him has devastating consequences, forcing her to take a humiliating way out to save herself and her family. This choice unleashes a sequence of fatal events that shatter her life, affecting everyone involved ... Read more

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  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    “A superb new translation” (The New Yorker) of stories that allow readers to experience the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka.When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St. Petersburg, he began composing these marvelous stories—tales that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social ... Read more

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  • The Secret History of Moscow

    by Ekaterina Sedia ...
    Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets—a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiled pagan deities and faery-tale creatures whisper strange tales to those who would listen. Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of ... Read more

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  • Fifty-Two Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD