Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958) was a leading Soviet satirist. His stories of the 1920s made him enormously popular with readers. In 1946 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union. He never recovered from this trauma and died of heart failure in 1958.Boris Dralyuk is the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (2016) and coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015).
27 Ebooks por Boris Dralyuk
Mikhail Zoshchenko: Sentimental Tales
Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkoro …
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€14.99
Isaac Babel: Red Cavalry
War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting – few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portra …
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€8.99
Boris Dralyuk: 1917
An exciting new collection of responses to the Revolution, by some of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century'This is the last of you, old word – soon we'll smash you to bit …
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€7.00
Isaac Babel: Odessa Stories
A new mass-market edition of the acclaimed stories of violence, crime and sex’One of those ‘where have you been all my life?’ books’Nick Lezard, Guardian In the city of Odessa, the lawless streets hi …
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€7.99
Dariusz Sosnicki: The World Shared
Dariusz Sosnicki’s poems open our eyes to the sublime just beneath the surface of the mundane: a train carrying children away from their parents for summer vacation turns into a ravenous monster; a m …
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€9.49
Oleg Woolf: Bessarabian Stamps
Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf’s Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of 16 stories set mostly in the village of Sanduleni — is a vivid, surreal evocation of a liminal world. …
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€9.99
Facundo Bernal: A Stab in the Dark
Facundo Bernal’s A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community in Los Angeles and in the burgeoning border town of Mexicali dur …
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€9.99
Raoul Whitfield: Virgin Kills
A killer stalks the guests of an eccentric millionaire at a Hudson River boating event in this classic thriller from one of the unsung masters of early noir mystery In the years between the world war …
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€12.83
Raoul Whitfield: Death in a Bowl
In this gripping classic thriller from the Golden Age of noir, tough-as-nails PI Ben Jardinn investigates the bizarre murder of an orchestra conductor in front of thousands of witnesses at the Hollyw …
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€2.57
Raoul Whitfield: Green Ice
In this Golden Age noir classic, a falsely convicted man is released from prison only to find he’s being framed for multiple murders In the 1930s, when pulp magazines like Black Mask …
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€12.80
Andrey Kurkov: Bickford Fuse
Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate …
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€3.99
Robert Chandler & Boris Dralyuk: Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nin …
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Lev Ozerov: Portraits Without Frames
Lev Ozerov’s finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pastern …
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€14.08
Leo Tolstoy: Lives and Deaths
Fresh translations of Tolstoy’s richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk Tolstoy’s stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new s …
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€8.99
Igor Golomstock: Ransomed Dissident
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted ‘tr …
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€36.88
Isaac Babel & Michael Bracken: Black Mask 2019 Yearbook
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue. This time around, it includes nine new stories in the Black Mask vein by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Br …
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€4.99
Ivan Turgenev: Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
This riverrun edition of Turgenev’s most accomplished stories contains A Nest of Gentlefolk, A Quiet Backwater, First Love, and A Lear of the Steppes – the defining masterpieces of his career. Justly …
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€3.99
Andrey Kurkov: Grey Bees
Ukraine’s most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. "A warm and surprisingly funny book from Ukraine’s greatest livi …
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€4.49
Isaac Babel: Of Sunshine and Bedbugs
A new selection of Isaac Babel’s most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris Dralyuk’It is impossible to look at the world the same way after reading Babel… one of the endu …
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€10.79
Andrey Kurkov: Grey Bees
2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED FICTION With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict. …
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€15.99
Raoul Whitfield: Virgin Kills
A killer stalks the guests of an eccentric millionaire at a Hudson River boating event in this classic thriller from one of the unsung masters of early noir mystery In the years between the world war …
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€12.69
Andrey Kurkov: Silver Bone
**A Summer 2024 pick in the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times**"Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine’s greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he wr …
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€5.99
Igor Golomstock: Ransomed Dissident
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted ‘tr …
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€36.85
