American Desert
10 best books like American Desert (Percival Everett): The Twelve Chairs, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Children of the Arbat, Buddha's Little Finger, The Life of Insects, Маскарад, Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed, Danilov, the Violist, Вьюрки, My Brother's Husband, Volume 2
| Author | Ilya Ilf |
| ISBN | 0810114844 |
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by...
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0099595818 |
Have you ever heard a politically incorrect joke and laughed, and then felt guilty, but then laughed again?
Have you ever driven by a car wreck and slowed down to see the emergency response vehicles, and the vehicle made to look like a damaged accordion?
Have you ever watched a reality...
| Author | Anatoli Rybakov |
| ISBN | 0099633302 |
To the two people among my goodreads friends, who are interested in Russian history and culture - this novel (first in a trilogy) covers the era of Stalin's reign of terror and is both riveting and historically accurate. It is mostly about a group of young people caught up in the workings of Stalin's totalitarian...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0141002328 |
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger,...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0571194052 |
Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by...
Евгений Арбенин — игрок, ловелас, «надменный баловень судьбы», всё перечувствовал, всё узнал, во всём успел разочароваться. И, наконец, увидя в юной красавице...
| Author | Michael Jones |
| ISBN | 1844155439 |
If you're looking for a complete book on the Battle of Stalingrad, this isn't the book for you and it doesn't claim to be. However, if you're looking for a book which gives you insight into the Soviet mindset before and during the battle you've come to the right place.
This book predominantly deals...
(первая книга, прочтенная на Kindle paperwhite! Загруженная по настоянию папы, который первым делом загрузил именно эту книгу на доставшийся ему по наследству...
Про самую страшную книгу - неправда.
Вчиталась со второй половины книги, до этого вообще не шло, видимо, потому что не было центрального героя, просто...
My Brother's Husband, Volume 2
| Author | Gengoroh Tagame |
| ISBN | 1101871539 |
The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan--Yaichi's brother-in-law--changes their lives and perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.
As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning...
