Literary / Slavic literature

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....

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...

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...