Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
6 best books like Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers (Ilya Ilf): Heart of a Dog, Moscow to the End of the Line, Зулейха открывает глаза, The Compromise, Тайные виды на гору Фудзи, Дети мои
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 0802150594 |
Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution.
A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland...
| 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)...
Роман «Зулейха открывает глаза» начинается зимой 1930 года в глухой татарской деревне. Крестьянку Зулейху вместе с сотнями других переселенцев отправляют...
| 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...
Тайные виды на гору Фудзи
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 5040984359 |
Готовы ли вы ощутить реальность так, как переживали ее аскеты и маги древней Индии две с половиной тысячи лет назад? И если да, хватит ли у вас на это денег?...
"Дети мои" — новый роман Гузель Яхиной, самой яркой дебютантки в истории российской литературы новейшего времени, лауреата премий "Большая книга" и "Ясная...
