Buddha's Little Finger

Author	Tatyana Tolstaya
ISBN	1590171969

Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza,...

Author	Venedikt Erofeev
ISBN	0810112000

Maybe the best book about Brezhnev's Russia imaginable. If you are the kind of person who has ever got drunk with friends, stormed a police station and then declared war on Norway then you will find much here that is familiar.

It's a book rich in allusion starting from the title (Moscow to Petushki)...

Author	Vladimir Sorokin
ISBN	1590172744

Vladimir Sorokin's first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet "years of stagnation." Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn't matter...

Author	Sergei Dovlatov
ISBN	0897333535

A very different read than my usual book. This is a collection of newspaper articles written in Estonia during the late 1970s, each followed by a longer description, often satirical (intended? or otherwise) which provides the true background of the articles. Through this the reader sees a sample of...

Author	Arkady Strugatsky
ISBN	5968000236

"Понедельник начинается в субботу. Сказка для научных работников младшего возраста" - под таким заголовком в 1965 году вышла книга, которой зачитывались...

Author	Zakhar Prilepin
ISBN	5911030322

Второй роман одного из самых ярких дебютантов 'нулевых' годов, молодого писателя из Нижнего Новгорода, финалиста премии 'Национальный бестселлер'-2005...

Author

Алексей Сальников

Роман «Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него»– финалист премии «Большая книга» и «НОС».

«Пишет Сальников как, пожалуй, никто другой сегодня, а именно –...