By the author of Death and the Penguin, this 1999 novel opens in Kiev with the puzzling death of a...
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (1892-1895) collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to...
Rudin
"The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are...
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
Twenty short stories and novellas by the master short-story writer including familiar masterpieces...
Alindarka’s Children
Alicia and her brother Avi are interned in a camp where children are taught to forget Belarusian...
The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories
"Twenty major [male] Russian writers are represented in this collection beginning with Pushkin,...
Lucky Breaks
Out of the impoverished Ukrainian coal regions, where Russian secret military intervention mixes...
Grey Bees
In Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces, there lies a...
Fathers and Sons
Nothing I could say about this book would make you want to read it more than this fantastic...
Death and the Penguin
No one wants to publish Viktor's short stories, but one day he gets a call from a newspaper asking...