Set against the backdrop of Leningrad, this novel centers around the life of precocious loner Yevgeny Litovtsev....
Featuring some of Russia's most prestigious post-Soviet writers, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia portrays the range of aesthetics and subject matter faced by a generation that never knew Communism.
Few countries have undergone more rad...The Literate One is Mikhail Iossel's first book since becoming a permanent resident of Canada. A collection of short stories, Iossel's work is articulate, culturally engaged and wickedly intelligent. From a peculiar tale of a savant speller, to an...
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience“We can’t stop turning the pages of this book.” -- Ilya Kaminsky, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the moment of its founding, ...