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  • Requiem for a Soldier

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Translated by Anna Gunin ...
    In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Asystole

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    From the first pages it becomes apparent that Asystole is a novel about love of life in its purest, instinctive and intimate form. It’s also a novel about human faith in its existence and a desire to experience this love. Author Oleg Pavlov places his character – a boy who grows to be a man and is clearly personified by the writer’s own outlook on life – in impossible and familiar circumstances, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asystole

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    From the first pages it becomes apparent that Asystole is a novel about love of life in its purest, instinctive and intimate form. It's also a novel about human faith in its existence and a desire to experience this love. Author Oleg Pavlov places his character – a boy who grows to be a man and is clearly personified by the writer's own outlook on life – in impossible and familiar circumstances, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Matiushin Case

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Series Book 3 - Tales from the Last Days
    The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's own traumatic experience as a conscript in the last years of the Soviet Union, it follows the ordeals of Matiushin, a sensitive, disoriented young man, damaged by brutality first within his ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Captain of the Steppe

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Series Book 0 - Tales from the Last Days
    It was easy to fall into Karabas, as easy as falling down a hole, but it was hard, to put it bluntly, to get out again. Never mind the zeks, even the soldiers were exiled ...' Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year's papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Captain of the Steppe

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Narrated by Al Bernstein ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Tales from the Last Days

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men . . .This blackly comic novel shows the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Requiem for a Soldier

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Narrated by Al Bernstein ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Tales from the Last Days

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Matiushin Case

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Narrated by Al Bernstein ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Tales from the Last Days

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Feedback Economics

    Economic Modeling with System Dynamics

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective. By introducing system dynamics methods (including qualitative and quantitative techniques) and computer simulation models, the respective contributions apply feedback analysis and dynamic simulation modeling to important local, national, and global economics issues and concerns. Topics covered include: an ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

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    Authored by an anonymous writer and smuggled out of North Korea, The Accusation is the first work of fiction to come out of the country and a moving portrayal of life under a totalitarian regime.In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and ... Read more

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  • Khatyn

    It is a quiet place, with lush green grass covering the location of the former Belarusian village. A village that was burned to the ground with its inhabitants in 1943. Anyone familiar with this small corner of Eastern Europe is chilled to the bone by the events that transpired there, and the village’s name Khatyn has now come to embody a horrific national tragedy. But tragedy is not all this name ... Read more

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  • The Librarian

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    If Ryu Murakami had written War and PeaceAs the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotten propaganda author of the Soviet era, have such an effect on their readers that they suddenly enjoy supernatural powers. Understandably, their readers need to keep accessing these books at all cost and gather into groups around book-bearers, or, as they're called, ... Read more

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