Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a crucial cultural figure in contemporary Russia, garnering both literary awards and best-seller status. Engaging with the past to combat the creeping authoritarianism of the Putin era, she has become the latest in a long line of Russian dissident authors championing th[...]
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian emigres gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of t[...]
A new anthology of short fiction by the critically acclaimed Russian author of The Funeral Party explores the diverse faces and implications of love in a collection that includes "Queen of Spades," "Angel," "The Dauntless Women of the Russian Steppe," and "Sonechka." 10,000 first printing.[...]
The novel tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who miraculously survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. This charade allows him not only to save himself, but to help hundreds of others by sharing vital information with those in peril.[...]