Здесь скотогоны крадут гусей, на крыше Казанского собора пьютпортвейн, советские граждане охотятся за дефицитом и издеваютсянад вождями; здесь романтичные строители Великой Империи любят,верят и жульничают, а золотая брежневская эпоха яснеет в дымке какпрекрасный и ностальгический плутовской роман.

«Легенды Арбата» – сборник невероятно смешных и головокружительных историй советского и недавнего прошлого. Беспощадная правда и народная мифология образуют блестящий сплав и гремучую смесь. По стилю и манере – продолжение знаменитого национального бестселлера «Легенды Невского проспекта».

Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism. Denounced as an abomination on publication in 1999—a crowd of angry Putin supporters gathered in front of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater to...

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and...

The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z - an uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 24, 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Several embedded narratives attributed to an alcoholic chemist-turned-massage therapist give insight into the funny, ironic, or tragic lives of people who remained in...

В центре нового романа Алексея Никитина «От лица огня» — история киевской украинско-еврейской семьи. Илья Гольдинов — боксёр, динамовец, чемпион Украины в тяжёлом весе. В первые месяцы войны Илья командует взводом партизанского полка, позже воюет в составе пехотной дивизии Красной армии, попадает в плен, находит возможность освободиться. В феврале 1942 года с заданием НКВД УССР он...

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes,...

A sad novel full of humor. A guard at a prison camp is writing about his everyday life. The prison camp seems to be a little model of the 'freedom': there's also love, hatred, happiness, sadness - just mixed in a different way, but in the same proportions. After a moment the 'Zone' starts to remind the Soviet state...

In this issue: Vassili Grossman The Commissar, Leonid Latynin Stavr and Sarah, Nina Sadur Irons and Diamonds, Ludmila Ulitskaia March 1953, Barely Soup, Igor Pomerantsev Sobs in Corners, A Little About You, Yosip, Victor Beilis Breakfast Alfresco. Stories united under subtitle What It Means To Be A Jew In Russia: Lev Anninsky The Wandering Jew, Osip Mandelstam Mikhoels, Larissa Miller Home...

of several generations of an upper-class family during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia. Historical events, providing a background for the narrative, are depicted not directly but rather as seismic shock waves overturning and transforming the lives of ordinary people. Lala, Natasha, Toma - three heroines are close friends, all from formerly affluent families stripped of their...