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  • Living Pictures

    by Polina Barskova ...
    Translated by Catherine Ciepiela ...
    A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction.Living Pictures refers to the parlor game of tableaux vivants, in which people dress up in costume to bring scenes from history back to life. It’s a game about survival, in a sense, and what it means to be a survivor is the question that ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Besieged Leningrad

    Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster

    by Polina Barskova ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the Auschwitz ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Verses on the Vanguard

    Russian Poetry Today

    Edited by Polina Barskova ...
    Six of the most remarkable contemporary Russian poets present their groundbreaking verse in a bilingual poetry collection published in partnership with PEN America’s Writers in Dialogue project.In 2020, as international travel skidded to a halt, PEN America’s Writers in Dialogue project—which opens the exhilarating world of contemporary Russian poetry to American readers by bridging the American ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short Inquiry into the End of the World

    A Mister Investigator Mystery

    by David Stromberg, Polina Barskova ...
    Series Book 20 - Working Titles
    In David Stromberg's newest work, Mister Investigator takes on the end of the wor;d—or rather, this fraught and dangerous moment that we find ourselves in, and what it says about our future. This particular moment, a crisis that feels unique and strange, is actually connected—as Mister Investigator discovers—to multiple precedents. To this end, Stromberg's analysis is first and foremost a reading: ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voices of Babyn Yar

    by Marianna Kiyanovska ...
    Translated by Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky ...
    Series Book 3 - Harvard library of ukrainian literature;
    With The Voices of Babyn Yar—a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska—the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival by projecting their own imagined voices. Artful and carefully intoned, the poems convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD