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  • Kolyma Stories

    de Varlam Shalamov ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation“One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times).Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Sketches of the Criminal World

    Further Kolyma Stories

    de Varlam Shalamov ...
    Traducido por Donald Rayfield ...
    The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories.In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Condensed Milk

    de Varlam Shalamov ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Narrated in the first person, this short story is one episode in the life of a Russian labour-camp inmate. Written by Varlam Shalamov after his own experiences at a gulag, it describes the apathy of prisoners as they steadily approach death, the assuredness of betrayal and duplicity, and the constant craving for material satisfaction to lessen the empty, scorched feeling inside. When an old ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Shock Therapy

    de Varlam Shalamov ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Merzlakov, once a robust stable-hand, now fights hunger, pain and exhaustion after a year and a half at a labour camp. An enormous man given little food, he sees the larger men dying first, their bodies conquered by starvation. In his desperation for survival, he begins a yearlong struggle of pain and injury. It ends with the inscrutable and punctilious Dr Peter Ivanovich. In a curious mix of ... Leer más

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  • We Have Been Harmonized

    Life in China's Surveillance State

    de Kai Strittmatter ...
    Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington PostAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air**, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter,offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the most terrifying surveillance state in history.**China’snew drive for repression is being underpinned by unprecedented advances intechnology: f... ... Leer más

    $7.49 USD

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  • We Germans

    A Novel

    de Alexander Starritt ...
    **WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZEA letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review).**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceIn the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Surviving Katyn

    Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

    de Jane Rogoyska ...
    The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnessesWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZECommitted in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • A General Theory of Oblivion

    de Jose Eduardo Agualusa ...
    Traducido por Daniel Hahn ...
    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International PrizeA Portuguese woman shuts herself away after the Angolan War of Independence in this stunning novel from a master storyteller whose writing evokes Gabriel García Márquez and J.M. Coetzee.On the eve of Angolan independence, an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her Luandan apartment for 30 years, living off vegetables and the pigeons ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Solovyov and Larionov

    From the award-winning author of Laurus

    de Eugene Vodolazkin ...
    Traducido por Lisa C. Hayden ...
    'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New YorkerA groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus and The AviatorCan we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?From the winner of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize, and the author of the multi-award winning Laurus, comes a... ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Grand Hotel

    de Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Traducido por Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991

    A History

    de Orlando Figes ...
    “A primer intended for readers unfamiliar with the territory, it sparkles with ideas, vivid storytelling, poignant anecdotes, and pithy phrases . . . Fresh and dramatic.” —The Sunday Times (London)Winner of the UK's prestigious Wolfson History PrizeAn original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • 1913

    The Year Before the Storm

    de Florian Illies ...
    Traducido por Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer).“A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post).**It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD