ANTONINA W. BOUIS has translated many Russian writers, including Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Tatyana Tolstoya, Sergei Dovlatov, and Andrei Sakharov.
PRAISE FOR DEFINITELY MAYBE
“One of the Strugatsky brothers is descended from Gogol and the other from Chekhov, but nobody is sure which is which. Together they have now proved quite definitely that a visit from a gorgeous blonde, from a disappearing midget, from your mother-in-law, and from the secret police, are all manifestations of a cosmic principle of homeostasis, maybe. This is definitely, not maybe, a beautiful book.”
“Surely one of the best and most provocative novels I have ever read, in or out of sci-fi.”
“Provocative, delicately paced and set against a rich physical and psychological background, this is one of the best novels of the year.”
PRAISE FOR ROADSIDE PICNIC
“It’s a book with an extraordinary atmosphere—and a demonstration of how science fiction, by using a single bold central metaphor, can open up the possibilities of the novel.”
“Gritty and realistic but also fantastical, this is a novel you won’t easily put down—or forget.”
“It has survived triumphantly as a classic.”
PRAISE FOR THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS
“The Strugatsky brothers demonstrate that they are realists of the fantastic inasmuch as realism in fantasy betokens a respect for logical consequence, an honesty in deducing all conclusions entirely from the assumed premises.”
“[In writing Gun, with Occasional Music], I fused the Chandler/Ross MacDonald voice with those rote dystopia moves that I knew backwards and forwards from my study of Ballard, Dick, Orwell, Huxley, and the Brothers Strugatsky.”
“Successive generations of Russian intellectuals were raised on the Strugatskys. Their books can be read with a certain pair of spectacles on as political commentaries on Soviet society or indeed any repressive society.”
“Their protagonists are often caught up in adventures not unlike those of pulp-fiction heroes, but the story line typically veers off in unpredictable directions, and the intellectual puzzles that animate the plots are rarely resolved. Their writing has an untidiness that is finally provocative; they open windows in the mind and then fail to close them all, so that, putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck.”
THE NEVERSINK LIBRARY
I was by no means the only reader of books on board the Neversink. Several other sailors were diligent readers, though their studies did not lie in the way of belles-lettres. Their favourite authors were such as you may find at the book-stalls around Fulton Market; they were slightly physiological in their nature. My book experiences on board of the frigate proved an example of a fact which every book-lover must have experienced before me, namely, that though public libraries have an imposing air, and doubtless contain invaluable volumes, yet, somehow, the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much.
AFTER MIDNIGHT
by Irmgard Keun
978-1-935554-41-7
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
THE ETERNAL PHILISTINE
by Ödön von Horváth
978-1-935554-47-9
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
THE LATE LORD BYRON
by Doris Langley Moore
978-1-935554-48-6
$18.95 / $21.50 CAN
THE TRAIN
by Georges Simenon
978-1-935554-46-2
$14.00 / $16.00 CAN
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP
by W. H. Davies
978-1-61219-022-8
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
FAITHFUL RUSLAN
by Georgi Vladimov
978-1-935554-67-7
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
THE PRESIDENT
by Georges Simenon
978-1-935554-62-2
$14.00 / $16.00 CAN
THE WAR WITH THE NEWTS
by Karel Čapek
978-1-61219-023-5
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
AMBIGUOUS ADVENTURE
by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
978-1-61219-054-9
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH
by Raymond Radiguet
978-1-61219-056-3
$15.00 / $17.00 CAN
THE MADONNA OF THE SLEEPING CARS
by Maurice Dekobra
978-1-61219-058-7
$15.00 / $15.00 CAN
THE BOOK OF KHALID
by Ameen Rihani
978-1-61219-087-7