Best romance books from Russia

Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into romance here are some romance books from Russia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Bride and Groom by Alisa Ganieva EN

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Country: Europe /

Russia

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Runner-up for 2015 Russian Booker Prize. From one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva, comes Bride and Groom, the tumultuous love story of two young city-dwellers who meet when they return home to their families in rural Dagestan. When traditional family expectations and increasing religious and cultural tension threaten to shatter their bond, Marat and Patya struggle to overcome obstacles determined to keep them apart, while fate seems destined to keep them together—until the very end. Alisa Ganieva (b. 1985) grew up in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Her literary d... continue

Genre fiction Romance

Tags: Female author

Recommended: 20 Apr 2022

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya EN

Rating: 3 12 Votes

Country: Asia /

Russia

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Love stories, with a twist, by Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poign... continue

Genre fiction Short story Romance

Tags: Set in RUSSIA Female author

Recommended: 01 Nov 2022

Romance books from Russia

Bride and Groom by Alisa Ganieva EN

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya EN

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