Short Stories / Slavic literature

My First Suicide

by Jerzy Pilch & David Frick

Ten connected stories about life in Poland that straddle the line between intimate revelation and drunken confession.

The Beggar and Other Stories

by Gaïto Gazdanov & Bryan Karetnyk

Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

In a Paris underpass, dirty and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the...

Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories

by Mikhail Shishkin, Leo Shtutin, Marian Schwartz & Mariya Bashkatova et al.

The first short story collection by the greatest contemporary Russian writer, Mikhail Shishkin, spanning his entire writing career, 1993-2013.