Literary / Slavic literature

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian...

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature....

The Brothers Ashkenazi

by I.J. Singer

In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means...

Petroleum Venus: a novel

by Alexander Snegirev

Based on personal experience, this is the tragicomic story of a single father of a 14-year-old son with Down syndrome

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.

Day of the Oprichnik

by Vladimir Sorokin & Jamey Gambrell

One of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books 2011

Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning.

Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor—but...

Snow White and Russian Red

by Dorota Maslowska & Benjamin Paloff

Dorota Maslowska's audacious debut novel establishes her as a new young literary voice of international importance. When Snow White and Russian Red was first published, it became a controversial, acclaimed best...

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn & Alexander Dolberg

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state....

Happiness is Possible

by Oleg Zaionchkovsky

Happiness is Possible tells the story of a writer late delivering his novel, unable to write anything uplifting since his wife walked out. All he can produce is notes about the happiness of others. But something...

Faithful Ruslan

by Georgi Vladimov & Michael Glenny

Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian)

Set in a remote Siberian depot...