"A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl''s jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a literary phenomenon in Europe where it w...
In Cape of Storms, Nina Berberova portrays a very specific generationâ€"â€"one born in Russia, displaced by the Revolution, and trying to adapt to a new home, Paris. Three sistersâ€"â€"Dasha, Sonia, and Zaiâ€"â€"share the same father, Tiagen, an att...
Writing with a resonating clarity, unsentimental yet full of human sympathy, Nina Berberova stands as one of the treasures of twentieth-century literature and the continuance of the great Russian tradition. The Ladies from St. Petersburg co...
The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Rus...
The Book of Happiness is one of the outstanding novels the great Russian writer Nina Berberova wrote during the years she lived in Paris, and the most autobiographical.
Such a character is Vera, the protagonist of The Book of Happiness. At the nove...
Written in Paris between 1928 and 1940 for an emigrant newspaper, Billancourt Tales is about the industrialized suburb of Paris where thousands of exiled Russians, including Berberova, were finding factory work and establishing homes.
These fi...The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova’s debut novel: an intense story of family conflict and the struggle over the future of émigré lifeOn a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Havi...