Scenes from the Bathhouse: And Other Stories of Communist Russia

9 best books like Scenes from the Bathhouse: And Other Stories of Communist Russia (Mikhail Zoshchenko): Sofia Petrovna, Pulp, Address Unknown, Heart of a Dog, Someone I Loved (Je l'aimais), Matryona's House and Other Stories, Le passe-muraille, L'amico ritrovato, کنستانسیا

AuthorLydia Chukovskaya
ISBN0810111500
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's...
Pulp
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0876859260
Pulp (novel), Charles Bukowski
Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. Pulp is a pulp fiction novel which acts also as a meta-pulp. Pulp comments on the obsessions of the pulp fiction genre, making...
Address Unknown
AuthorKathrine Kressmann Taylor
ISBN0743412710
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high...
Heart of a Dog
AuthorMikhail Bulgakov
ISBN0802150594
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...
Someone I Loved (Je l'aimais)
AuthorAnna Gavalda
ISBN1594480419


Forever Leaving You Wanting Just One More Moment, 21 Feb 2006


"So love is just bullshit" That's it? It never works out?"
"Of course it works out. But you have to fight.."
"Fight how?"
"Every day you have to fight a bit. A little bit each day, with the courage to be yourself,...
AuthorAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN0140039856
"As long as there is fresh air to breathe under an apple tree after a shower, we may survive a little longer." (243)I had already read two of the longer pieces in this collection—Matryona's House and An Incident at Krechetovka Station. The other stories in this collection, especially the last, newly...
AuthorMarcel Aymé
ISBN2070369617
Il y avait à Montmartre, au troisième étage du 75 bis de la rue d'Orchampt, un excellent homme nommé Dutilleul qui possédait le don singulier de passer à travers les murs sans en être incommodé. Il portait un binocle, une petite barbiche noire et il était employé de troisième classe au ministère...
L'amico ritrovato
AuthorFred Uhlman
ISBN8807810549
An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclusiva. L'uno è figlio di un medico ebreo, l'altro è di ricca famiglia aristocratica. Tra loro nasce un'amicizia del cuore, un'intesa perfetta e magica. Un anno dopo, il loro legame è spezzato....
کنستانسیا
AuthorCarlos Fuentes
ISBN9642090686
دکتر ویتبی هال، پزشک چیره‌دست امریکایی، به‌همراه همسر اندلسی خود، کنستانسیا، در همسایگی موسیو پلوتنیکوف، بازیگر سالخورده‌ی روس، زندگی می‌کند. دکتر...
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