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  • Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

    by Robert Chandler ...
    Series series
    From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Railway

    by Hamid Ismailov, Robert Chandler ...
    Description“In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon ... Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both on the inside and on top with infidels shouting and waving their hands. ‘The End of the World!’ thought both Mahmud-Hodja the Sunni and Djebral the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chevengur

    by Andrey Platonov ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    A sort of Soviet Don Quixote, this novel about a craftsman who wanders the U.S.S.R. hoping to ease human misery with his inventions is considered one of the most important novels of the Soviet era, and is now available in its full version in English for the first time.Chevengur is a revolutionary novel about revolutionary ardor and despair. Zakhar Pavlovich comes from a world of traditional crafts ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The People Immortal

    by Vasily Grossman, Julia Volohova ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    The first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second World War, each offering a distinct take on what a war novel can be, and each extraordinary. A common set of characters links Stalingrad and Life and Fate, but Stalingrad is not only a moving and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Stalingrad

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand.The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Everything Flows

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anna Aslanyan ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Subtly Worded and Other Stories

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A selection of the finest short stories from “one of the most popular writers in Russia,” praised by many as the female Chekhov (The New York Times)Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Captain's Daughter

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    This classic of Russian literature plunges readers into a fascinating moment in military history as it follows an unforgettable cast of characters during the Pugachev Rebellion.“Time has done nothing to dull the excitement of the story.” —The New York TimesAlexander Pushkin’s short novel is set during the reign of Catherine the Great, when the Cossacks rose up in rebellion against the Russian ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Road

    Stories, Journalism, and Essays

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Mukovnikova ...
    The Road rings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman’s first success, “In the Town of Berdichev,” a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as “Mama,” based on the life of a girl who was adopted ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • An Armenian Sketchbook

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalFew writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun.After the Soviet government confiscated—or, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Memories

    From Moscow to the Black Sea

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg ...
    A beloved 20th century writer’s painful and humorous memoir of leaving her home in post-revolutionary Russia forever, written with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm“Despite the backdrop of terror, war, death and loss, Teffi’s world becomes somewhere we do not want to leave”—Claire Kohda Hazelton, The GuardianConsidered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me

    The Best of Teffi

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Rose France, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD