Glagoslav
Orchestra
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This is a wonderful and a frustrating book. In part it is a rattling good old-fashioned thriller, such as Fredrick Forsyth might have ...Read Review
Mebet
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This is historical fiction/fantasy to the extent that it claims to be based on an oral tradition. Mebet is a hunter living ...Read Review
The Lawyer from Lychakiv Street
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This Ukrainian crime novel requires at least some knowledge of the time and place in which it is set, so it is worth ...Read Review
A Flame Out at Sea
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This is a novel about the Russian North, the land of the Pomors, a landscape of lakes and forests, bears and fish, where ...Read Review
The Monastery
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Solovki. The first Soviet labour camp on an island in the White Sea, the blueprint for what became the Gulag. Originally planned as ...Read Review
Little Zinnobers
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Little Zinnobers is not an easy read and presents many challenges, especially to an English-speaking readership. Even the title is problematic, coming from ...Read Review
The Nuremberg Trials
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The Nuremberg Trials are about to begin, and the victorious nations are determined that the Nazis will be brought to justice. The USSR’...Read Review
Alpine Ballad
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This short but powerful novel begins with Ivan Tsyareshka escaping from a Nazi concentration camp in the Austrian Alps and embarking on a ...Read Review
The Investigator
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Set in the author’s native Ukraine in the early 1950s, the novel tells of the murder of a young woman. It seems ...Read Review
Gnedich
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Even for those well-versed in Russian literature, Nikolai Ivanovich Gnedich (1784-1833) is hardly a household name, but in his time he was a ...Read Review
