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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595523 | ISBN 10: 1914595521
A note from Parthian Books: "This novel is partly set in Ukraine circa 2014. The writer travelled to Ukraine and was made very welcome by lots of people in the course of her research work. We are supporting the Red Cross Appeal for Ukraine by donatin ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781913097219 | ISBN 10: 1913097218
Translated by Bela Shayevich Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846276323 | ISBN 10: 1846276322
Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus. The third, Knut, a baby bear born and raised in Berl ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571234875 | ISBN 10: 0571234879
When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272144 | ISBN 10: 1782272143
'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.' The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857866196 | ISBN 10: 0857866192
1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964675 | ISBN 10: 0241964679
Moscow, 1986. In a run-down apartment block, a piano prodigy practices silently to avoid disturbing the neighbours. In a factory, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In the hospital, a talented surgeon buries himself in his work. And ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857863195 | ISBN 10: 0857863193
'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.' Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and a ... more
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