The story exposes the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet life in those...
Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author ofThe Master and Margaritashows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress.
In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail...
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union — and also one of the funniest.The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who...
Returning to Bukhara after a prolonged exile, Hodja Nasreddin finds his family gone, his home destroyed, and his city in the grasp of corrupt and greedy rulers who have brought pain and suffering upon the common folk. But Hodja Nasreddin is not one...
This collection of Platonov’s short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn (“Soul”), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not...