Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002), born in Kiev, was a Soviet Jewish writer and screenwriter who collaborated with Andrei Tarkovsky on Solaris (1972), among other works. His father was arrested during Stalin’s purges and later shot. Unable to publish in the Soviet Union, Gorenstein emigrated to Berlin, where he lived until his death. An award-winning film adaptation of Redemption was released in 2012.Andrew Bromfield is an acclaimed translator of contemporary Russian writers such as Victor Pelevin and Boris Akunin. He has also translated Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
37 Ebooks de Andrew Bromfield
Friedrich Gorenstein: Redemption
It is New Year’s Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her fath …
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Boris Akunin: Coronation
“Fandorin . . . dominates this, the seventh of his adventures to be published in the States, as he always does—with Sherlockian elan” (The Washington Post). Bo …
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Victor Pelevin: Helmet of Horror
"A brilliant new telling" of the Theseus and Minotaur myth set in a cyberspace labyrinth-from the award-winning Russian writer (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Victor Pelevin, the iconoc …
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€19.11
Igor Vishnevetsky: Leningrad
Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and …
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Mikhail Elizarov: The LIBRARIAN
An epic full of video game-like battles, Russian landscapes and old babushkas, who fight with scythes… As the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotte …
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Hamid Ismailov: The Dead Lake
A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Soviet Kazakhstan where atomic weapons are tested. As a young boy he falls in love with th …
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€8.39
Olga Slavnikova: Light-Headed
Light-Headed is a zany, anarchic black comedy which satirises life in contemporary Russia. At its heart is the question what is important in life and what sacrifices an individual should be expected …
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€15.59
Boris Akunin: Coronation
Fandorin returns in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation …
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Boris Akunin: She Lover Of Death
Can Fandorin infiltrate a secret society to save Moscow’s youth? A dark and decadent detective story from the master of Russian crime fiction.There’s been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suic …
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Boris Akunin: Special Assignments
Boris Akunin’s well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully …
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Boris Akunin: State Counsellor
Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-t …
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Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky: Monday Starts on Saturday
When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft …
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Victor Pelevin: S.N.U.F.F.
Damilola Karpov is a pilot. Living in Byzantium, a huge sky city floating above the land of Urkaine, he makes his living as a drone pilot – capable of being a cameraman who records the events unfoldi …
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Boris Akunin: Black City
The latest book in the internationally bestselling Erast Fandorin Mysteries series’Readers can expect prime Akunin – ingenious, twisty, exotic’ Daily Mail Crimea, 1914. When the Tzar’s head of securi …
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Mikhail Shishkin: Light and the Dark
Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they’ve not just been separ …
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Svetlana Alexievich: Boys in Zinc
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated text – From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devasta …
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Andrey Kurkov: Good Angel of Death
‘Packs a lot of plot into this deadpan satire… Strange and tantalising’ Metro Discover this powerful dark satire from one of Ukraine’s most acclaimed authors.When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kyi …
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Andrew Bromfield & Arkady Strugatsky: Inhabited Island
When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact …
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Andrew Bromfield & Arkady Strugatsky: Inhabited Island
When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact …
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€17.90
Victor Pelevin: The Hall of the Singing Caryatids (New Directions Pearls)
A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment. After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven oth …
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Victor Pelevin: Omon Ra
‘An inventive comedy as black as outer space itself. Makes The Right Stuff looks like a NASA handout.’—Tibor Fischer. Victor Pelevin’s novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wic …
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Victor Pelevin: The Yellow Arrow
Set during the advent of perestroika, a surreal, satirical novella by a critically acclaimed young Russian writer traces the fate of the passengers on The Yellow Arrow, a long-distance Russian train …
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Victor Pelevin: Helmet Of Horror
When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the MInotaur’s labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze …
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Andrew Bromfield & Adam Roberts: Monday Starts on Saturday
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Ins …
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Andrew Bromfield & Adam Roberts: Monday Starts on Saturday
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, wh …
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Sergei Lukyanenko: New Watch
Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance t …
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Svetlana Alexievich: Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for work that stands as ‘a monument to suffering and courage in our time’ (Swedish Academy). Before the United States’ invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a de …
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Aleksei Pekhov: Les Chroniques de Siala (Tome 1) – Le rôdeur d”ombre
Après des années de paix, l’Innommable se réveille… Jamais les Terres désolées n’avaient connu pareil rassemblement ; des milliers de géants, d’ogres et d’autres créatures maléfiques unissent leurs …
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€16.67
Aleksei Pekhov: Les Chroniques de Siala (Tome 2) – Le prédateur d”ombre
L”ambiance n’est pas à la fête parmi les aventuriers qui accompagnent Harold l’Ombre dans sa quête : ils ont dû enterrer l’un des leurs sur la route, et ils pressentent que ce ne sera pas le dernier …
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€16.56
Aleksei Pekhov: Les Chroniques de Siala (Tome 3) – Le vent d”ombre
Après la perte de nombreux frères d’armes, les trahisons et plus de batailles qu’on ne peut en compter, après avoir été capturé par de terrifiants ravisseurs, Harold l’Ombre atteint enfin Hrad Spein, …
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