Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3.
A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers
Collection of short poem by famous modern Russian poet Lev Rubinstein
Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin, translated Jamey Gambrell
When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of War and Peace and decides to track down its author, even if it means digging up the grave of a Ukranian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances.
Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs from him in terror.
"A sparkling jewel of a historical novel-sumptuous entertainment that compellingly recreates a golden era, an eccentric family, and Russia's greatest poet in his wild and brilliant youth" Simon Sebag Montefiore
Russian is spoken by nearly 450 million people, and demand for Russian?speakers is growing. This introductory course includes an audio CD with practice dialogues?just the ticket for readers who need basic Russian for business, school, or travel.
Гваделупа ? это Рай на Земле. Ряд факторов повлияли на то, что теперь независимое от Франции островное государство не пострадало от финансового кризиса, поразившего весь мир. Строгие правила регулируют деятельность банкиров, а они совсем не против. Джордж работает в Национальном банке Гваделупы уже десять лет. Каждое утро он приходит в офис, включает компьютер и слушает автоответчик ? приятный женский голос говорит ему, что у него нет новых сообщений. Ему нравится его маленький ритуал, от этого ему хочется петь еще больше; он любит петь. Но однажды утром его старый мир уничтожен появлением в его электронной почте письма из-за границы. Череда событий, поток новых мыслей и ряд новых встреч ожидают Джорджа впереди...
Living Souls follows the lives of four couples struggling to escape the chaos and stupidity of the war around them