Books from Russia
102 popular russian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Russia.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Bride and Groom by Alisa Ganieva EN
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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
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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn EN
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One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state.
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Crime and Punishment : A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue by Fyodor Dostoyevsky EN
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Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. When Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commit... continue
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Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov EN
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Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror. He and Misha have been drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape.
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Der Spieler by Fjodor M. Dostojewski DE
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Die zentrale Thematik dieses 1866 erstmals erschienenen Romans kreist um zwei Pole - die zerstörerische Leidenschaft zum Spiel und die Qual einer komplizierten Liebesbeziehung. Zunächst will Aleksej Iwanowitsch am Spieltisch nur seine ruinöse Finanzlage verbessern, aber wie der berühmte Autor selbst erliegt er der Faszination des Rouletts. Als ihm schließlich seine heimliche Liebe Paulina ihre ZUneigung gesteht, kann er den eingeschlagenen Weg nicht mehr verlassen. Er verliert die Geliebte, die erkennt, dass sie gegen die 'Poesie des Spiels' ohnmächtig ist.
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Despair by Vladimir Nabokov EN
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Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
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Drei Schwestern by Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow DE
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Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow: Drei Schwestern. (Tri Sestry) Das 1900 entstandene Schauspiel zeichnet das Leben der drei Schwestern Olga, Mascha und Irina nach, die nach dem Tode des Vaters gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder Andrej in der russischen Provinz leben. Natascha, die Frau Andrejs, drängt die Schwestern nach und nach aus dem eigenen Hause. Erstdruck: In: Russkaja mysl', H. 2, Moskau 1901. Hier nach der Übers. v. August Scholz, Berlin: I. Ladyschnikow, [o.J.]. Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2013. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: ... continue
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El testamento francés by Andreï Makine ES
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Publicada en 1995, el best-seller "El testamento francés" se coronó con tres de los premios literarios franceses más prestigiosos (Goncourt, Medicis, Goncourt des Lyceens) y es la cuarta novela de este escritor nacido en Siberia y afincado en París, donde enseñó lengua y literatura rusas. Novela autobiográfica, novela de doble exilio, "El testamento francés" reúne dos mundos situados en la Europa de finales del siglo XX: Francia y Rusia. Una inquietante meditación sobre la libertad del individuo, la viole... continue
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin EN
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Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication—now in a marvelous new translation Pushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the countryside, where he encounters the young and passionate Tatyana. She falls in love with him but is cruelly rejected. Years later, Eugene Onegin sees the error of his ways, but fate is not on his side. A tragic story about love, innocence, and friendship, this beautifully written tale is a... continue