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Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol EN
UkraineDescription:
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, thes... continue
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Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova EN
RussiaDescription:
"as indispensable to confronting, say, your domineering mother-in-law or your local city council as it is to helping foment an ongoing and ever-escalating insurrection against, say, a sexist, racist, nepotistic power-mad oligarchy threatening to destroy democracy as we know it...My advice: Buy one" - VOGUE A guerrilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance from artist, activist and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova. The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creati... continue
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Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina EN
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In 2012 Maria Alyokhina and other members of Pussy Riot performed a provocative 'Punk Prayer', taking on the Orthodox church and its support for Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime. They were charged with 'organized hooliganism'. That trial and Alyokhina's subsequent imprisonment became an international cause. For Alyokhina, her two-year sentence launched a struggle against the Russian prison system and an iron-willed refusal to be deprived of her humanity. This book gives voice to Alyokhina's insistence on the right to say no, whether to a prison guard or to the president.
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Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky EN
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those misfits who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his mutant daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that he makes his last tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile territory.
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Romanul cocainei by M. Agheev RO
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Original si tulburator, Romanul cocainei descrie experientele adolescentului Vadim Maslennikov, un tinar din Moscova anilor 1914-1919. Conventia narativa a jurnalului intim ii permite autorului sa redea, intr-un limbaj direct si, pe alocuri, frust, tribulatiile unei constiinte lucide si sensibile pe drumul sinuos al descoperirii de sine. Asemenea personajului central al unui cunoscut roman semnat de Italo Svevo, acest tinar Zeno inregistreaza, cu acuitatea unui seismograf, vibratiile transmise de evenimentele reale pina la cel mai profund nivel al interioritatii sale, unde se convertesc intr-o... continue
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov EN
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as “The Huntsman” and... continue
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Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreyev EN
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'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. A powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a bestseller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic assassinat... continue
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Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė EN
LithuaniaDescription:
An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank. In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of manual labour. At the age of 21, she escapes the gulag and returns to Lithuania. She writes her memories on scraps of paper and buries them in the garden, fearing they might be discovered by the KGB. They are not found until 1991, four years after her death. This is the story Dalia buried. The immediacy... continue
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Sóniechka by Liudmila Ulitskaia ES
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Sonia, una chica judía poco agraciada, confiere a los personajes de ficción la misma categoría que a las personas. En Sverdlovsk, donde trabaja en una biblioteca, conoce al pintor Víktorovich, que ha viajado mucho por Europa y cumplido varios años de reclusión en un campo de trabajo soviético. Siguen años de felicidad conyugal coronada con el nacimiento de la hija de ambos, Tania. El interés de Sóniechka hacia la literatura se desvanece; la familia, las labores de la casa, ocupan ahora su vida. Esa felicidad se verá truncada con la aparición de una amiga de Tania, Yasia, de la que Víktorovich ... continue