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Скачать книгу (размер 876 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 173) Аннотация: Noted for its fresh and positive approach, extraordinary vitality, and fearless acceptance of life in its good and bad manifestations, this book shows young Russians' minds and souls. The plays focus on the painful problem of neglected children abused or abandoned by alcoholic single mothers, and the children's thirst for the love and understanding they are not getting. The four young authors are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 284) Аннотация: Merciless and beautiful prose, pithy and precise... leaves no one unmoved. Ex Libris Real-life dialogues, vivid imagery, striking metaphors. Literary Russia A remarkable novel of social discontent written by a sure hand. SNOB Gangsters take complete control of an industrial town with its corrupt authorities, business, and police. Defending his daughter, the protagonist accidentally shoots the…

Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: A cycle of stories about the difficult process of coming of age: young people who see themselves as outcasts, oddballs, and freaks, and who grow up through some experience of love and loss. These Ugly Duckling — type stories are timeless and the author has managed to make them new again. They are united by the one thousand-year-old city of Yaroslavl, Russia, and provide a host of exciting details…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Excerpts from the novels shortlisted for the third Booker Russian Novel Prize read like complete stories and are followed by summaries of the novels and authors' notes. Included are: Bulat Okudzhava (Winner), The Show is Over; Peter Aleshkovsky, The Life of Ferret; Yuri Buida, Don Domino; Alexei Slapovsky, The First Second Coming; Mikhail Levitin, Total Impropriety; Igor Dolinyak, The Third…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: These two novels by Debut Prize finalists present typical provincial towns in central Russia and a gallery of modern-day types: radically minded youths, ruthless thugs, drunken intellectuals, the local elite, and failed fortune seekers. The heroes are yearning for faraway glamorous cities and trying to find their identities. They suffer through various weird misadventures, but for many readers…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature... Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time.» Olga Slavnikova, director of the Debut PrizeBy and about Russian hitchhikers, these stories take the reader along the endless roads of central Russia, the Urals, the Altai, Siberia, and beyond. In energetic and vivid prose they depict all sorts of curious…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: This is the tragicomic story of a successful young architect, Fyodor, the reluctant single father of an adolescent son with Down syndrome. The son is a terrible embarrassment to Fyodor, who relies on his own parents to take care of him. Fyodor has fraught relationship with them as well. But then a fatal car crash and the accidental discovery of a mystical painting, Petroleum Venus, force this…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: Styled as Oriental tales, these parables are unexpected, exciting, colorful, and tremendously readable. Vlas Doroshevich could not stand tyranny in any form and in his tales he availed himself of complete freedom to mock, to despise, and to accuse the authorities for their wickedness, hypocrisy, and stupidity. These tales could be written by and for rebellious anti-establishment youth of today.…

Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: The novel is about displaced persons and their cultural and psychological problems in an alien society. It consists of monologues by several male and female protagonists – repatriated Russian Germans -- whose lives become entangled at a certain point in the country of law and order, where they suddenly realize that they feel more Russian than German. They find themselves culturally different from…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Savelyev is a professional in a good sense: his language consists of energetic short sentences, abundance of well-chosen details, and recurrent juxtaposition of the fictional and the documentary. The novel is written masterfully, aptly phrased and rich in interesting details; it will look good in Volume One of his Collected Works a couple of decades from now. Afisha Mars symbolizes freedom and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «Since 2002, readers all over the world have been enjoying and learning from Michele A. Berdy's column «The Word's Worth» in The Moscow limes. In this quirky, opinionated, sometimes hilarious yet always thoughtful and authoritative guide, Berdy looks at Russia's changing culture, social scene and everyday life through language and the art of translation. She discusses colloquialisms and youth…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «The women's movement and women's literature are relatively new phenomena in Russian cultural life. Before perestroika there was only one organization for women, and that was the government-controlled Soviet Women's Committee. In the last few years sixty-two have been registered, six newspapers for women are now published, there is a TV programme called «Career Woman», and we have four feminist…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: «The picture resembles a Chagall painting.... Or perhaps this anti-autobiography is meant to satirize the old Russian question 'Who is to blame?' with the Jewish answer: Me.» — «The Times Literary Supplement». In the title novella the hero, after a marital infidelity, takes his family to Paris hoping to win his beautiful wife's forgiveness.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: War&Peace: a compelling portrait of post-post-perestroika Russia. War&Peace brings together 12 stories by new generation of Russian writers. These 'state of the nation' stories imaginatively explore current Russian definitions of war and peace. WAR: controversial stories about life in the modern Russian army where the continuing war in the Caucasus has bred discontent and corruption. PEACE:…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This frank and detailed memoir of Sergey Esenin is indispensable for anyone interested in the literary avant-garde of the twenties.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The living voices of eleven leading Russian authors. Kristina Rotkirch's book presents the reader with an overview of contemporary Russian literature: Boris Akunin, Yuri Mamleev, Yevgeni Grishkovets, Eduard Limonov, Victor Pelevin, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Nina Sadur, Vladimir Sorokin, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Ivan Shishkin, and Tatyana Tolstaya. The contrast in styles, life experiences, and outlooks…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «As the narrative delivers glimpses of human life in bite-size chunks, [Asar] Eppel's extraordinary compassion and humor is revealed, combined with his Jewish sense of history and merciless insight into people's true natures» Good Book Guide «Unsentimental but humane, his spare realism penetrates daily life» The New York Times Book Review»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Dramatic history of several generations of an upper-class family during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism – Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant critic. His essays are dynamic, informative, and a joy to read.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Rubinstein succeeds in arranging his fragmented text in such a clever way that they invariably trigger off a series of associations, even in the reader who fails to catch all the allusions weaved in by the author. Thus his texts begin to speak to any reader anywhere and in any language, but they speak in a different way.