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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “polina barskova”
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  • 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

    $8.99 USD 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $38.69 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.59 USD

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  • The End of Days

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel

    Growing Up in Communist Russia

    by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ...
    Translated by Anna Summers ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyThe prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia**Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel—the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles—Ludmilla ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Today I Wrote Nothing

    The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms

    by Daniel Kharms ...
    Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic ... Read more

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  • In Memory of Memory

    by Maria Stepanova ...
    Translated by Sasha Dugdale ...
    An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writersShortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeWinner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation AwardWith 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Herstories

    An Anthology Of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers

    by Michael M. Naydan ...
    Women's prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged. These authors write in a wide variety of styles and genres including short stories, novels, essays, and new journalism. In the collection you will find: realism, magical realism, surrealism, ... Read more

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  • Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think

    by Alexander Vvedensky ...
    Translated by Matvei Yankelevich, Eugene Ostashevsky ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    “Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated.... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or a bullet from a guard. It was somewhere on the railway line between Voronezh and Kazan. His principle ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

    Edited by Robert Chandler, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, Boris Dralyuk ...
    An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski.In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD