Eugene Vodolazkin: Оправдание Острова (A History of the Island)
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Оправдание Острова (A History of the Island). This is the history of an imaginary island, told both in a series of…
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Оправдание Острова (A History of the Island). This is the history of an imaginary island, told both in a series of…
The latest addition to my website is Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's Нас украли. История преступлений (Kidnapped). Petrushevskaya is best-known for her weird/dark tales and though this is a novel it takes the…
The latest addition to my website is Sergei Lebedev's Титан (A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles). This is not a novel but, as Lebedev says in his introduction, the…
The latest addition to my website is Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Странствующее Странно (Stravaging Strange). Stravage is an old Irisih/Scottish word meaning wandering aimlessly. This book consists of three stories (plus a…
The latest addition to my website is Eugenia Kononenko's Російський сюжет (A Russian Story). This is the last in my Ukrainian marathon and, despite the title, certainly one that deals…
The latest addition to my website is Zinaida Tulub's В степу безкраїм за Уралом (The Exile). This is novelised biography of the first exile of Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko.…
The latest addition to my website is Yuri Andrukhovych's Московіада (The Moscoviad. Our hero is a Ukrainian poet called Otto Wilhelmovych von F. He has a two-year stipend to write…
The latest addition to my website is Oleg Shynkarenko's Кагарлик (Kaharlyk). the book was originally on Facebook before being published as a book. It tells of the aftermath of the…
The latest addition to my website is Alla Gorbunova's Конец света, моя любовь It’s the End of the World, My Love). Gorbunova is primarily a poet and this is to…
The latest addition to my website is Boris Poplavsky's Домой с небес (Homeward from Heaven). This is a follow-up to his earlier Аполлон Безобразов (Apollon Bezobrazov) and, indeed, features the…