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  • Wound

    A Novel

    by Oksana Vasyakina ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    **Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ FictionFor fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and grief**From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Steppe

    A Novel

    by Oksana Vasyakina ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    A visceral, stirring novel following a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of WoundA decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of Steppe, now a literature student, goes on the road with him as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of Russia. She’s both drawn ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rose

    A Novel

    by Oksana Vasyakina ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    The final book in Oksana Vasyakina’s acclaimed autofiction trilogy that began with Wound and Steppe, Rose tells the story of Vasyakina’s lineage, and the intimacy, pain, and resilience that define womanhood in a patriarchal worldAs a young writer living in Moscow, Oksana Vasyakina tries to solve the riddle of her aunt Svetlana’s short and apparently tragic life. Svetlana was the black sheep of a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • It's the End of the World, My Love

    by Alla Gorbunova ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel.Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova ... Read more

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  • (Th)ings and (Th)oughts

    by Alla Gorbunova ...
    Translated by Elina Alter ...
    From a rising star of “inventive and wildly evocative” Russian literature (Publishers Weekly), a collection of short stories that straddles the line between delight and horror.Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova’s (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is a spellbinding collection of thematically-linked short prose. A teacher contemplates leaving her husband after ... Read more

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    by Anthony Marra ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor ... Read more

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  • There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

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    by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ...
    Translated by Keith Gessen, Anna Summers ...
    New York Times BestsellerWinner of the World Fantasy AwardOne of New York magazine’s 10 Best Books of the YearOne of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign FictionThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol HotelVanishings and a... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Aetherial Worlds

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    by Tatyana Tolstaya ...
    **“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review“Grimly hilarious ... Everything in this ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Underground

    by Hamid Ismailov, Translated by Carol Ermakova ...
    Description“I am Moscow’s underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town,” says Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of Uzbek master Hamid Ismailov’s novel, The Underground. Born from a Siberian woman and an African athlete who came to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo navigates the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the shaky terrain of the ... Read more

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  • Moscow Noir

    by Natalia Smirnova, Julia Goumen ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "Authors whose dark take on humanity would be familiar to the likes of Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson. Story after story offers haunting images." — Publishers Weekly , starred reviewThe more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and it isn't always pretty. Following Akashic Books' international success with London Noir, Del... ... Read more

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  • Best European Fiction 2011

    by Colum McCann ...
    Series series Best European Fiction
    The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews wi... ... Read more

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  • White Walls

    Collected Stories

    by Tatyana Tolstaya, Antonina Bouis ...
    Translated by Jamey Gambrell ...
    “Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” –TimeTatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair—established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia’s finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O’Brien has called ... Read more

    $6.99 USD