Living Souls

5 best books like Living Souls (Dmitry Bykov): The Gambler, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, A School for Fools, Favourite Daughter, Тайные виды на гору Фудзи

The Gambler
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral...
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0140441395
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an ‘awkward mixture of fact and fiction’, generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against...
AuthorSasha Sokolov
ISBN0941423077
“Since it’s winter what kind of butterflies can you be speaking of, asks the pedagogue with mock surprise, what’s wrong – are you crazy? And you respond with unshaken dignity: in the winter one can speak only of winter lepidoptera, those which are called snow butterflies, I catch them in the...
Favourite Daughter
AuthorKaira Rouda
One of them lied. One of them died.

Jane’s life has become a haze of antidepressants since the tragic death of her daughter, Mary. The accident, which happened over a year ago now, destroyed their perfect family life forever.

The trouble is, the more Jane thinks about that night,...
Тайные виды на гору Фудзи
AuthorVictor Pelevin
ISBN5040984359
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?...
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