Georgi Vladimov: Верный Руслан (Faithful Ruslan)
The latest addition to my website is Georgi Vladimov's Верный Руслан (Faithful Ruslan). This is a classic of Soviet-era gulag literature though, unlike other gulag novels, such as One Day…
The latest addition to my website is Georgi Vladimov's Верный Руслан (Faithful Ruslan). This is a classic of Soviet-era gulag literature though, unlike other gulag novels, such as One Day…
The latest addition to my website is Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. This book has received a lot of criticism, not least because it is major departure for Ishiguro as…
It was my plan to read around twenty Russian novels one after the other but, in the meantime, a few books arrived that I really wanted to read, so there…
The latest addition to my website is Zakhar Prilepin's Санькя (Sankya). Sankya, invariably called Sasha in this book, is a young Russian, a former military man who belongs to a…
The latest addition to my website is Ludmila Ulitskaya's Даниэль Штайн, переводчик (Daniel Stein, Interpreter). This is a quasi-hagiographic fictionalisation of the story of Oswald Rufeisen, a Polish Jew who,…
The latest addition to my website is Andrei Bitov's Преподаватель симметрии (The Symmetry Teacher). This is a wonderful novel, nominally starting with a Russian man trying to reconstruct a story…
The latest addition to my website is Gaito Gazdanov's Вечер у Клэр (An Evening with Claire). This was Gazdanov's first novel, written when he was only twenty-six and living in…
The latest addition to my website is Vladislav Otroshenko's Приложение к фотоальбому (Addendum to a Photo Album). This a hilarious and somewhat fanciful account of a Cossack family of thirteen…
The latest addition to my website is Vasily Golovanov's Остров или Оправдание бессмысленных путешествий [Island or A Justification for Meaningless Travel]. This is a wonderful non-fiction novel, in which the…
The latest addition to my website is Mikhail Shishkin's Взятие Измаила [The Taking of Izmail]. This is one of his earlier novels, not (yet?) translated into English but, in my…