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  • The People Immortal

    by Vasily Grossman, Julia Volohova ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    The first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second World War, each offering a distinct take on what a war novel can be, and each extraordinary. A common set of characters links Stalingrad and Life and Fate, but Stalingrad is not only a moving and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stalingrad

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand.The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • From the Front Line

    Stalingrad–Treblinka–Berlin, 1941–45

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    War reporting from one of Russia's greatest writers, an indispensable record of World War II and the Eastern Front.June 22, 1941: Launch of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Vasily Grossman soon begins a new career as a war reporter.During the next four years, he covered all the major battles of the Eastern Front, from Stalingrad to Berlin, writing brutally vivid reports that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Life and Fate

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler ...
    A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chevengur

    by Andrey Platonov ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    A sort of Soviet Don Quixote, this novel about a craftsman who wanders the U.S.S.R. hoping to ease human misery with his inventions is considered one of the most important novels of the Soviet era, and is now available in its full version in English for the first time.Chevengur is a revolutionary novel about revolutionary ardor and despair. Zakhar Pavlovich comes from a world of traditional crafts ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

    by Robert Chandler ...
    Series series
    From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Everything Flows

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anna Aslanyan ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov

    by Nikolai Leskov ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Donald Rayfield, William Edgerton ...
    A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay "The Storyteller," in which ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Road

    Stories, Journalism, and Essays

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Mukovnikova ...
    The Road rings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman’s first success, “In the Town of Berdichev,” a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as “Mama,” based on the life of a girl who was adopted ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Subtly Worded and Other Stories

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A selection of the finest short stories from “one of the most popular writers in Russia,” praised by many as the female Chekhov (The New York Times)Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Peter the Great's African

    Experiments in Prose

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, Elizabeth Chandler ...
    Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia's greatest poet.Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s foundational writer, was constantly experimenting with new genres, and this fresh selection ushers readers into his creative laboratory. Politics and history weighed heavily on Pushkin’s imagination, and in “Peter the Great’s African” he depicts the Tsar ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Memories

    From Moscow to the Black Sea

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg ...
    A beloved 20th century writer’s painful and humorous memoir of leaving her home in post-revolutionary Russia forever, written with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm“Despite the backdrop of terror, war, death and loss, Teffi’s world becomes somewhere we do not want to leave”—Claire Kohda Hazelton, The GuardianConsidered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD