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Series
Leningrad confidential volume 2
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo, an imprint of Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Zaitsev is back to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman in this atmospheric and relentlessly dark detective series set in Stalinist Russia. On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush with the Party, is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk, southern Russia, to investigate. As he witnesses...
2) Chevengur
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chevengur is a philosophical novel that is also rich in psychological, social, and sensuous detail. Although it was never publishable in the USSR, it now stands as one of the most celebrated of Soviet novels, and along with The Foundation Pit, it is the most ambitious and moving of Andrey Platonov's efforts to take the measure of a world undergoing revolutionary transformation. The full text of Chevengur is here translated into English for the first...
3) A Volga tale
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Named Best Foreign Book of 2021 in France Finalist for the Prix Medicis 2021 Longlisted for the European Literature Prize 2021 The longest river in Europe, the Volga, divides the continent in two. On one side, mighty mountains, large Russian cities with white stone churches, translucent blue lakes of icy water, a cold wind blowing from the North Sea, and, in the early years of the twentieth century, the winds of momentous change blowing even harder,...
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