The Life of Insects
9 best books like The Life of Insects (Victor Pelevin): The Twelve Chairs, The Slynx, Moscow to the End of the Line, Golden Calf, Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution, Тёмные аллеи, Понедельник начинается в субботу, Санькя, 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 | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| ISBN | 1590171969 |
Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza,...
| 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 | 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 | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 1566635160 |
“Blessed are those who will visit this world in its fatal moments!” Tyutchev – Cicero
The country is flooded with twilight… Anarchy and chaos are reigning over the nation…
No one believes the newspapers… Hearsay and rumours are all the news…
There is a rumor that the Allies...
| 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 | 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 | Zakhar Prilepin |
| ISBN | 5911030322 |
Второй роман одного из самых ярких дебютантов 'нулевых' годов, молодого писателя из Нижнего Новгорода, финалиста премии 'Национальный бестселлер'-2005...
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 –...
