Jamey Gambrell Alma Guillermoprieto Tat'iana Tolstaia
A collection of essays by the grea-grandniece of Leo Tolstoy offers reflections on Russian politics, culture, and literature, discussing such widely diverse topics as Soviet women, Russian cookery, and the influence of Pushkin and freedom on Russian authors. Original.
A collection of essays by the grea-grandniece of Leo Tolstoy offers reflections on Russian politics, culture, and literature, discussing such widely d...
A New York Review Books Original "Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." -Time Tatyana 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 Tolstaya "an enchantress." Anita Desai has spoken of her work's "richness and ardent life." Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying...
A New York Review Books Original "Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." -Ti...
Leonid Tsypkin s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington Post claimed it a chronicle of fevered genius, and The New York Review of Books described it as gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving. In her introduction, Susan Sontag said: If you want from one book an experience of the depth and authority of Russian literature, read this book.
At long last, here are the remaining writings of Leonid Tsypkin: in the powerful novella Bridge Across the Neroch, the history of...
Leonid Tsypkin s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington ...
