The Island of Crimea
9 best books like The Island of Crimea (Vasily Aksyonov): The Twelve Chairs, The White Guard, Golden Calf, Buddha's Little Finger, Moscow 2042, Авиатор, Вся кремлевская рать: Краткая история современной России, Текст, Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него
| 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 | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 0099490668 |
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not...
| 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...
Евгений Водолазкин - прозаик, филолог. Автор. В России его называют "русским Умберто Эко", в Америке - после выхода "Лавра" на английском - "русским Маркесом"....
Вся кремлевская рать: Краткая история современной России
Эта книга рассказывает об истории России на всем протяжении правления Владимира Путина, с 2000 по 2015 год. В основу книги легли документы, открытые источники...
"Текст" - это психотриллер и криминальная драма, нуар и книга об отношениях отцов и детей, история о невозможной любви и бесполезном возмездии. Действие...
Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него
Роман «Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него»– финалист премии «Большая книга» и «НОС».
«Пишет Сальников как, пожалуй, никто другой сегодня, а именно –...
