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10 best books like The Time: Night (Ludmilla Petrushevskaya): Wave of Terror, Envy, Sofia Petrovna, The Women's Decameron, A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry, Textermination: A Novel, Pushkin House, Farewell to Matyora, The Dream Life of Sukhanov

Wave of Terror
AuthorTheodore Odrach
ISBN0897335627
This panoramic novel hidden from the English-speaking world for more than 50 years begins with the Red Army invasion of Belarus in 1939. Ivan Kulik has just become Headmaster of school number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through his eyes we witness the tragedy of Stalinist domination...
Envy
AuthorYury Olesha
ISBN1590170865
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a model Soviet citizen, a swaggeringly self-satisfied mogul of...
Sofia Petrovna
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...
The Women's Decameron
AuthorJulia Voznesenskaya
ISBN0704325551
Like Boccacio's famous Florentines, Julia Voznesenskaya's Russian women are cunning and savvy—about all facets of the Soviet system. They know how to beat it and how to endure. Quarantined in a Leningrad maternity ward after giving birth, ten women from all walks of Soviet life amuse themselves...
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories
AuthorVictor Pelevin
ISBN0811213943
An anthology of eight short stories by the critically acclaimed young Russian novelist. The writing is colloquial and often whimsical, and many of the stories take supernatural phenomena very much for granted, as with the werewolves of the title story, or another in which the protagonist discovers...
Final Meeting: Selected Poetry
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
ISBN1438234732
Anna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966) is considered by many to be one of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age. Her works range from short lyric love poetry to longer, more complex cycles, such as Requiem, a tragic depiction of the Stalinist terror. One of the forefront leaders of the Acmeism...
Textermination: A Novel
AuthorChristine Brooke-Rose
ISBN0811212165
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
Pushkin House
AuthorAndrei Bitov
No other contemporary novel provides such clear insight into the Russian mind and way of life as Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House. First published in the United States in 1987 and highly praised for its inventiveness, Pushkin House is a contemporary literary masterpiece. Though the novel's focus is a...
Farewell to Matyora
AuthorValentin Rasputin
ISBN0810113295
A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal, soulless march of progress.

It is the final summer of the peasant village of Matyora. A dam will be completed in the fall, destroying the village....
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
AuthorOlga Grushin
ISBN0143038400
Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores - really, colonizes - the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground...
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
AuthorAlexandra Popoff
The six literary wives in the book, Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn were muses, intellectual companions, and indispensable aids to Russia’s most celebrated writers. Popoff draws from the women’s autobiographical...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
AuthorRobert Chandler
ISBN0141442239
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
AuthorNikolai Leskov
ISBN1843910683
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing...
Happy Moscow
AuthorAndrei Platonov
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, "life has become better, life has become merrier". In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphal­ism and the harsh reality of low living standards and...
On the Golden Porch
AuthorTatyana Tolstaya
ISBN0394577981
A collection of thirteen short stories translated from the Russian. The author is distantly related to Tolstoy (a great-grand-niece).

In Loves Me, Loves Me Not, two little girls reflect back on their ugly nanny and how much they hated her.

In Sweet Shura, a woman in her late 80’s...
Autobiography of a Corpse
AuthorSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
ISBN1590176707
The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits: a provincial...
Unforgiving Years
AuthorVictor Serge
ISBN1590172477
Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final work, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works.

The...
The Translator
AuthorJohn Crowley
ISBN0380815370
My husband is a huge John Crowley fan, and one day, he very un-subtly left "The Translator" on my nightstand. I admit I was a little hesitant: I enjoyed Crowley's other works, but I also found him hard work to get through. But "The Translator" turned out to be very different from "Little, Big" or the "Aegypt"...
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
AuthorSofia Tolstaya
ISBN0061997412
After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the renowned author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Sofia Tolstoy kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Her life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband but was tormented by him. She lived against the background of one of the most turbulent periods in...
Medea and Her Children
AuthorLyudmila Ulitskaya
ISBN0805211446
Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike...
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
AuthorNadezhda Durova
ISBN0253205492
..". sparkles with wit, intelligence and bold characterization." --Women's Review of Books

..". a ripping yarn... admirable translation... sensitive introductory essay." --Times Literary Supplement

..". a remarkable journal worthy of the attention of a wide audience." --Doris...
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