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1) We
Author
Language
English
Description
"Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: love. At once satirical and sobering - and now available in a powerful new translation - We is both a rediscovered classic and a work of tremendous relevance to our own times."--Jacket.
4) El hielo
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara, cop
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Una ola de brutales asesinatos sacude Moscú. Los cadáveres aparecen con el tórax destrozado y el corazón aplastado, y el único nexo aparente entre las víctimas es su aspecto físico: todos son rubios y de ojos azules. En una ciudad dominada por bandas criminales y empresarios sin escrúpulos, un grupo misterioso ha puesto en marcha un siniestro plan: su objetivo es encontrar a sus 23.000 hermanos perdidos. Necesitan dar con ellos para despertarlos...
5) Not Russian
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's. The friendship between the two men evolved through periods...
Author
Publisher
Translit Publishing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov discovers an amazing ray that drastically increases the size and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious plague wipes out all the chickens in the Soviet republic. The government expropriates Persikov's untested invention in order to rebuild the poultry industry, but a horrible...
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It is not unusual for a writer to be pigeonholed, but few great writers have suffered from this more than Teffi. Several of her finest works are extremely bleak, but many Russians still know only the comic and satirical sketches she wrote during her first years as a professional writer, from 1909 until the First World War. Few critics and scholars have recognized the full breadth of her human sympathy, her Chekhovian ability to write equally convincingly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled revolution and civil war in Russia, the family has worked tirelessly to establish themselves as crop farmers in Provence, their hopes of returning home a distant dream. While young Ilya Stepanovich is committed to this new way of life, his step-brother Vasya looks only to the past. With the arrival of a letter from Paris, a plot to lure Vasya back to Russia begins in...
11) Jacob's ladder
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and beyond, Jacob's Ladder guides the reader through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine, and draws suggestive parallels between historical events of the early twentieth century and those of more recent memory. Spanning the seeming promise...
13) The gift
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International / Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
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