Moscow 2042
9 best books like Moscow 2042 (Vladimir Voinovich): Moscow to the End of the Line, The Foundation Pit, Golden Calf, Kolyma Tales, Omon Ra, Тёмные аллеи, The Compromise, Тайные виды на гору Фудзи, Текст
| 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 | Andrei Platonov |
| ISBN | 0810111454 |
We always believe that the bright future is just around the corner and we wait for it to come…
…on the face of each young Pioneer girl there remained a trace of the difficulty, the feebleness of early life, meagerness of body and beauty of expression. But the happiness of childhood friendship,...
| Author | Ilya Ilf |
| ISBN | 5782700726 |
It's hard sometimes for a book or a movie to make me genuinely lol. I was giggling so hard while reading Zolotoi Telenok, it deserves four, if not five stars just for that.
Ilf and Petrov are a very witty couple, and even though the narration and the language of their books seem light-hearted, a lot of...
| Author | Varlam Shalamov |
| ISBN | 0140186956 |
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes...
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0811213641 |
Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong...
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 5352002373 |
Когда-то давно, ещё в школе, наша заботливая учительница литературы выбрала на свой вкус пару рассказов Бунина, и я точно помню, что они были из сборника...
| 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?...
"Текст" - это психотриллер и криминальная драма, нуар и книга об отношениях отцов и детей, история о невозможной любви и бесполезном возмездии. Действие...
