The Compromise
10 best books like The Compromise (Sergei Dovlatov): The Twelve Chairs, Moscow to the End of the Line, Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod, Golden Calf, Buddha's Little Finger, Moscow 2042, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Двенадцать стульев / Золотой телёнок, Понедельник начинается в субботу, Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
| Author | Ilya Ilf |
| ISBN | 0810114844 |
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by...
| 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 | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0192828800 |
Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short stories....
| 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 | Victor Pelevin |
| ISBN | 0141002328 |
Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger,...
| Author | Vladimir Voinovich |
| ISBN | 0156621657 |
Welcome to dystopia, soviet-style. If you like your satire roasted to well-charred black comedy, this novel weighing in at over four hundred pages will be a memorable feast. I laughed so hard reading The Fur Hat, I wanted to laugh even harder – Moscow 2042 gave me the chance. Vladimir...
| Author | Vladimir Voinovich |
| ISBN | 0810112434 |
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant...
Once upon a time my father was nearly expelled from the Komsomol - a youth communist organization in the USSR, for choosing Ostap Bender - a charming thief, polygamist and swindler from "Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" as the subject of "My favorite literary character" composition. At the time...
| 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 | Ilya Ilf |
| ISBN | 1568986009 |
In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens...
| Author | Zakhar Prilepin |
| ISBN | 5911030322 |
Второй роман одного из самых ярких дебютантов 'нулевых' годов, молодого писателя из Нижнего Новгорода, финалиста премии 'Национальный бестселлер'-2005...
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?...
