She vanished eleven years ago. Every year, on her daughter’s birthday, her mother received a letter: ‘You will never see each other again.’ For eleven years, few people believed she was still alive. And now, she has returned. Maxime Monceau—a gendarme by profession, a synergologist and non-verbal communication specialist by training, and, by birthright, a former member of a sect he loathes...

An atmospheric drama about a heroine’s return to the heart of Karelia—a place where time flows more slowly than elsewhere, and the boundary between past, present, and future becomes blurred. – A poignant parable-novel exploring the clash between the old and the new, and the lives of those who stayed behind when everyone else left. – For admirers of contemporary social fiction set in the...

A new short story collection about women from the author of the autofiction novel *The Bay of Patience*. – A meticulous and sensitive exploration of how diverse female identity is shaped through familiar life trajectories—coming of age, the search for meaning and stability, the struggle against misogyny, separation, and motherhood.

The book is rooted in the Orthodox legend of ‘Zoya’s Standing’ in Kuibyshev; in the author’s own words, it is a philosophical novel about modern man’s rejection of the miraculous. In the provincial backwater of Grechansk, the impossible occurs. A young woman named Tatiana gathers her friends for a dance party; finding herself without a partner, she invites... Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker...

On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice pick he had hidden in his raincoat into Trotsky’s skull. For over a decade, Trotsky’s greatest enemy, Joseph Stalin, had been trying to arrange his murder. Stalin’s agents had hunted him across Europe and into a lonely, bitter exile in Mexico. He...

This book represents yet another attempt to unravel the phenomenon known as the Russian banya. Alongside historical and practical sections—which allow readers to trace the traditions of banya culture, or to independently build a banya, construct a stove, install a plunge pool, and prepare and administer wellness treatments—this volume offers a unique perspective on the banya experience,...