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  • Chernobyl Prayer

    A Chronicle of the Future

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Arch Tait, Anna Gunin ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, who was kept from going to her husband because he was a dangerous radioactive object. Then the voice of an old woman unable to see why she has to leave her farm and her village. ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

    'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Sky Wept Fire

    My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter

    by Mikail Eldin ...
    Translated by Dr Anna Gunin ...
    On the eve of the first Chechen war in the 1990s, Mikail Eldin was a young and na�ve arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a concentration camp. His compelling memoir traces the unfolding of the conflict from day one, with vivid scenes right from the heart of the war. The Sky ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Requiem for a Soldier

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Translated by Anna Gunin ...
    In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I am a Chechen!

    by German Sadulaev ...
    Translated by Anna Gunin ...
    I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home.Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tells the stories of those who stayed behind. He brings dead friends back to life again, revisiting their first loves, their passion for rock music, their ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

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    The Prisoner

    Behind Bars in Putin's Russia

    by Vladimir Pereverzin ...
    Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    'A bleak and vivid account' BBC Radio 4‘I am haunted by the feeling that it is not me I’m writing about, but some other man who lived through it all. It is as though I was watching a film about him, reading a book on him. And here is that book’Shocking, but laced with wry humour, Vladimir Pereverzin’s extraordinary story is of an ordinary man whose comfortable life is upended. Refusing to give ... Read more

    $28.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Requiem for a Soldier

    by Oleg Pavlov ...
    Narrated by Al Bernstein ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Tales from the Last Days

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The State Counsellor

    by Boris Akunin ...
    Series series The Fandorin Mysteries
    Moscow's 19th century diplomat-detective Fandorin is on the run for murder in this ingenious historical mystery by "the Russian Ian Fleming" (Ruth Rendell).Since the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book, millions of readers have been enthralled by Erast Fandorin, "a devastatingly attractive combination of Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey and James Bond" ( The Guardian). ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People's Act Of Love

    by James Meek ...
    Series series Canons
    1919, Siberia . . .Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Girl With A Sniper Rifle

    An Eastern Front Memoir

    by Yulia Zhukova ...
    A memoir of a graduate of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School and her experience during World War II.Yulia Zhukova was a dedicated member of the Soviet communist youth organization, the Komsomol, and her parents worked for Russia's secret police, the NKVD. Yulia started at the sniper school near Podolsk in western Russian and eventually became a valued soldier during operations against Prussia. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Short Stories

    Dedicated to Writer's 85th Anniversary

    by Chingiz Aitmatov ...
    This collection of three Aitmatov short stories basically was dedicated to James Riordan, the British academic and the best translator of Aitmatov into English. It contains his translation of the 1960 short story 'Camel Eye' as well as Rahima Abduvalieva's translations of 'The Boy Soldier' and 'The Monkey Girl and the Satchel'. The latter was originally written in German as a fairy tale for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soviet Sniper

    The Memoirs of Roza Shanina

    by Roza Shanina ...
    The diary of the Soviet World War II sniper known as the "unseen terror of East Prussia" who killed 59 enemy soldiers before dying heroically at age 20.Roza Shanina was celebrated for her remarkable shooting accuracy and astonishing bravery. Volunteering for military service after the death of her brother in 1941, she fought her way to the frontline and became a key player in a number of major ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus