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“dmitry lipskerov”

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  • The Tool & the Butterflies

    by Dmitry Lipskerov ...
    Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Isaac Wheeler ...
    Dmitry Lipskerov, an award-winning Russian writer compared throughout his career to Mikhail Bulgakov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, focuses his unbridled imagination on the story of wealthy, satisfied Mr. Iratov, whose virile world is flipped upside-down. Taking a page from Gogol’s satirical story “The Nose,” wherein the protagonist loses his aforementioned facial feature, Lipskerov's novel ... Read more

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  • The Tsar of Love and Techno

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    From the author of National Book Award longlist selection and New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena come these dazzling, poignant and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war and the redemptive power of art.This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming ... Read more

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  • Pravda

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    by Edward Docx ...
    Dark family secrets come to light in this novel of "nearly Dickensian proportions" set in Paris, New York, and St. Petersburg ( The New Yorker).Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg from London to find his Russian mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral—without contacting their manipulative and self ... Read more

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  • There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

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    by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ...
    Translated by Keith Gessen, Anna Summers ...
    New York Times BestsellerWinner of the World Fantasy AwardOne of New York magazine’s 10 Best Books of the YearOne of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign FictionThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol HotelVanishings and a... ... Read more

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  • Cancer Ward

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    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...
    Translated by Nicholas Bethell, David Burg ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg ... Read more

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    by Boris Fishman ...
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    by Arkady Strugatsky, Strugatsky Boris ...
    Translated by Antonina W. Bouis ...
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    by Gary Shteyngart ...
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    Translated by Jamey Gambrell ...
    by Vladimir Sorokin ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters of the Light who were scattered on earth. To wake their sleeping hearts. To return to the Light. To ... Read more

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    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Read more

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