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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) SLAVIC STUDIES 2010 Here is a round-up of the Penguin Group (USA)’s great selection of Slavic Studies titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo TABLE OF CONTENTS

RUSSIAN HISTORY...... 2 EASTERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE...... 12 EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY...... 4 CONTEMPORARY VOICES...... 13 ...... 6 REFERENCE & ANTHOLOGIES...... 14 EARLY PERIOD...... 6 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE.... 15 NINETEENTH CENTURY...... 6 TWENTIETH CENTURY...... 9 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPY ORDER FORM.... 17 TWENTY FIRST CENTURY...... 10 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM...... 18 POETRY...... 11

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Antony Beevor William Craig STALINGRAD ENEMY AT THE GATES The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 The Battle for Stalingrad “Certainly the best narrative of the battle yet to appear “Craig has written a classic account of the Stalingrad and is not likely to be surpassed in our time.”—John Kee- epic—here is the drama, the terror, the horror and the gan. “Superb…Beevor combines a soldier’s understand- heroism of the greatest military encounter of our time.” ing of war’s realities with the narrative techniques of a —Harrison E. Salisbury. B/w photographs. novelist.”—. Penguin • 472 pp. • 978-0-14-200000-7 • $16.00 Penguin • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-028458-4 • $18.00 Samuel Johnson Prize; the Wolfson History Prize; Pete Earley the Hawthornden Prize f COMRADE J THE MYSTERY OF OLGA CHEKHOVA The Untold Secrets of ’s Master Spy “A fascinating spy story…and a compelling investigation in America After the End of the Cold War that at last unveils the Second World War’s most bewilder- The remarkable story of the man who ran Russia’s post- ing International Woman of Mystery.”—Evening Standard Cold War spy program in America—and worked as a dou- (London). “His painstaking work clears away historical ble agent for the FBI. “Fascinating.”—Library Journal. gossip and shows how ingeniously Olga played powerful Berkeley • 352 pp. • 978-0-425-22562-2 • $15.00 figures off against each other to survive the revolution, the war, and Stalin’s purges.”—The New Yorker. Photos. Orlando Figes Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303596-1 • $15.00 A PEOPLE’S TRAGEDY The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 Lesley Chamberlain “Will stand for some time as a standard of historical MOTHERLAND scholarship.”— Book Review. “A soul- A Philosophical History of Russia stirring reassessment of the Russian Revolution…certain “A valiant, fascinating and intellectually rigorous attempt to become one of the seminal studies.”—The Philadelphia to make sense of an extremely difficult subject.”—Sunday Inquirer. Illustrations. Telegraph (London). Penguin • 1,024 pp. • 978-0-14-024364-2 • $25.00 Overlook • 352 pp. • 978-1-58567-965-2 • $18.95 Henry Wolfson History Prize

Robert Conquest John Lewis Gaddis STALIN THE COLD WAR Breaker of Nations A New History “A superb portrait. Briskly written, authoritative yet not “Offers trenchant summaries of complex historical issues, pedantic, filled with interesting anecdotes…fascinating new angles on old controversies, and fresh ways of reading.”—The New York Times Book Review. thinking.”—William Taubman. “A succinct, crisply argued Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-016953-9 • $17.00 account of the Soviet-American conflict that…synthe- sizes the mountain of archival material that began appearing in the 1990’s. Energetically written and lucid.”—The New York Times. For instructions on requesting permission to photocopy Penguin Group (u s a ) titles, for coursepacks and for general Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303827-6 • $16.00 classroom use go to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400.

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Michelle Goldberg f THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION RUSSIA’S WAR Sex, Power, and Future of the World Recreates the ’s apocalyptic struggle against “May be the most important book you’ll ever read about Germany during World War II, from the point of view of the future of the human race.”—Rick Perlstein. “A land- both troops and civilians. “Making excellent use of newly mark book.”—Jeff Sharlet. available Presidential archival material and K.G.B. collec- Penguin Press • 272 pp. • 978-1-59420-208-7 • $25.95 tions, Overy has written a penetrating and compassion- Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311688-2 • $16.00 ate book.”—The New York Times Book Review. Penguin paperback availible April 2010 Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-027169-0 • $17.00

Ian Kershaw Richard Pipes FATEFUL CHOICES RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 Second Edition Analyzes the series of related decisions by the leaders of “One of the finest books ever written on Russian the world’s major powers that decided the course and civilization.”—The Guardian (London). Maps. outcome of World War II. “An absolutely first-rate schol- Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-024768-8 • $17.00 arly study of a series of vital, inter-related political choices by one of the leading historians of the age.”—Tony Judt. S.M. Plokhy “Kershaw does an excellent job of synthesizing a great f deal of scholarship and thereby helping to further our The Price of Peace understanding of this epic struggle—as well as the role “In this insightful new book, S. M. Plokhy takes on per- of contingency in the making of history.”—The New York haps the most controversial and least understood sum- Times. B/w photos, maps. mit of modern times….The Big Three come to life in Penguin • 656 pp. • 978-0-14-311372-0 • $18.00 Plokhy’s telling, and the analysis is sober and strong.”— Jon Meacham, author of American Lion. “Yalta provides V. I. and important and timely corrective to the myths that THE STATE AND REVOLUTION have lasted far too long. His detailed and balanced Translated with an Introduction by Robert Service account should do much to correct the misunderstand- Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-018435-8 • $14.00 ings and distortions.”—. B/w photos. Viking • 448 pp. • 978-0-670-02141-3 • $29.95 f RUSSIA AGAINST NAPOLEON John Reed The True Story of the Campaigns of TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD A major new history of the based on a Introductions by A.J.P. Taylor and V. I. Lenin fresh examination of the Russian Military archives. “A Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the events in Lenin- monumental work…full of new material from the archives grad in November of 1917 “rises above every other con- and fresh insights.”—Orlando Figes. temporary record.”—George F. Kennan. Viking • 512 pp. • 978-0-670-02157-4 • $34.95 Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-144212-9 • $12.00 Available April 2010 Fitzroy Maclean THE EASTERN FRONT, 1914-1917 EASTERN APPROACHES “It is very rare that a book remains a landmark in its field A classic account, originally published in 1949, of a young for twenty years. This is one example. It is still the best diplomat’s time in Russia before the Second World War. book on the Eastern Front.”—Orlando Figes. Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-013271-7 • $30.00 Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-026725-9 • $15.00

Roy Medvedev and UNKNOWN STALIN f AN APPEAL TO THE TOILING, OPPRESSED His Life, Death and Legacy AND EXHAUSTED PEOPLES OF EUROPE Translated by Ellen Dahrendorf Penguin Great Ideas “One of the most remarkable books about I Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-104256-5 • $10.00 have read for many years….It is a behind-the-scenes story of what happened on a day-to-day basis inside the Kremlin.” Henri Troyat —The Washington Times. “Fascinating and innovative.” CATHERINE THE GREAT —Simon Sebag Montefiore. Translated by Joan Pinkham Overlook • 336 pp. • 978-1-58567-644-6 • $16.95 “Troyat chooses a theatrical approach full of surprises and suspense.”—Le Monde. Plume • 400 pp. • 978-0-452-01120-5 • $18.00

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Tim Tzouliadis John Ure f THE FORSAKEN f THE COSSACKS An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia An Illustrated History The story of how thousands of Americans were lured to “An excellent introduction to the subject.”—The Daily Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs only to meet a tragic Telegraph (London). 105 full-color & 30 b/w illustrations. and largely forgotten end. “Tzouliadis’s clear, strong narra- Overlook • 260 pp. • 978-1-59020-212-8 • $24.95 tive discloses the terrible fates which awaited those—com- mitted communists and apolitical innocents alike—who Timothy Ware wandered into the Soviet sphere.”—The Financial Times. THE ORTHODOX CHURCH Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311542-7 • $17.00 Revised Edition Describes the history of the Eastern Church over the last two thousand years. Map. Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-014656-1 • $17.00 EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

Norman Davies Zlata Filipović RISING ‘44 ZLATA’S DIARY The Battle for A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo “Powerful and compelling…Davies provides a gripping Introduction by the author account of the Rising, interspersing his narrative with “Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day many first-person accounts that detail moments of hero- conflict.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “A graphic first-hand ism and of tragedy.”—The Boston Globe. “Much more than look at the war in Sarajevo by a Croatian girl whose per- the story of the Warsaw uprising. It is one of the most sav- sonal world has collapsed, this vivid, sensitive diary age indictments of Allied malfeasance yet leveled by a sounds an urgent and compelling appeal for peace.” historian.”—The New York Times. B/w photo insert. —Publishers Weekly. Penguin • 784 pp. • 978-0-14-303540-4 • $20.00 Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-303687-6 • $14.00 Also in Penguin: Stolen Voices 978-0-14-303871-9 NO SIMPLE VICTORY Europe at War 1939-1945 Misha Glenny “Infused with irony and paradox, qualities essential to THE BALKANS understanding history….Rearranges and juxtaposes Nationalism, War and facts and events in often unexpectedly illuminating the Great Powers, 1804-1999 ways.”—The Atlantic. “Reappraises the war and demol- “Excellent…Glenny’s audacious theme is that the Balkans ishes many of the myths accreted around it. A lively and are not a freestanding powder keg, but a ‘powder trail’ contrary historiography, skillfully written and far from laid by the great powers themselves.”—The New Republic. humorless.”—Library Journal. Penguin • 752 pp. • 978-0-14-023377-3 • $20.00 Penguin • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-311409-3 • $17.00 Jan T. Gross Slavenka Drakulić NEIGHBORS THEY WOULD NEVER HURT A FLY The Destruction of the Jewish War Criminals on Trial in The Hague Community in Jedwabne, Poland “In the first in-depth look at the war crimes trials in The “A truly path breaking book, the work of a major historian.” Hague, Slavenka Drakulić has written a deeply personal —Tony Judt. “An important contribution to the literature and lucid account.”—Laura Silber. “An important and nec- of human bestiality unleashed by war.”—The New York essary book.”—Eva Hoffman. Times Book Review. Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303542-8 • $16.00 Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200240-7 • $15.00 CAFÉ EUROPA Life After Communism Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both “Insightful…The book not only helps to illuminate the SREBRENICA political and social problems facing much of Eastern Record of a War Crime Europe, but also sheds new light on the daily life of its res- “A chilling testimony to the evil that executed—and the idents, their emotional habits, fears and .”—The bungling that could not prevent—an ‘ethnic cleansing’ New York Times. massacre, the single worst atrocity in Europe since World Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-027772-2 • $15.00 War II.”—The New York Times Book Review. Also in Penguin: S., A About the Balkans 978-0-14-029844-4 Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-026632-0 • $16.00

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Tony Judt Joachim Neugroschel, translator and editor f REAPPRAISALS THE SHTETL Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century A Creative Anthology of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Drawing provocative connections between a range of A rich collection of Yiddish classics—some never before subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of translated into English—offering the full panoply of Shtetl evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of life from the middle ages to twentieth century. “The initi- the Cold War, Judt shows how out history has been sacri- ated and the uninitiated…both will benefit from the selec- ficed in the triumph of myth-making over understating. tion and quality here.”—The New York Times Book Review. “Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the Overlook • 584 pp. • 978-0-87951-380-1 • $23.95 political, diplomatic, social and cultural history of the past century.”—Forbes. “By turns fascinating [and] edify- Alan Palmer ing . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an THE BALTIC elegant writer and subtle thinker.”—Los Angeles Times. A New History of the Region and Its People Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-311505-2 • $18.00 “[Palmer] handles complex material so logically and ele- POSTWAR gantly that the reader can easily digest a diet of unfamiliar A History of Europe Since 1945 names and places…grippingly described.”—The Economist. “Judt’s massive, learned, brilliantly detailed account of Overlook • 464 pp. • 978-1-58567-863-1 • $19.95 Europe’s recovery from the wreckage of World War II presents a whole continent in panorama even as it sets off detona- Laura Silber and Allan Little tions of insight on almost every page.”—The New York Times. YUGOSLAVIA “Meticulous in its scholarship, compelling in the story it tells, Death of a Nation and passionate in its judgments. A true masterpiece.”— “The most authoritative account in English or any other Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution. “First-rate language about how the war began.”—The Washington political, economic, and social history.”—The New Yorker. Post Book World. Photographs. Penguin • 960 pp. • 978-0-14-303775-0 • $20.00 Penguin • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-026263-6 • $17.00 Arthur Ross Book Award; a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year; a San Francisco Chronicle and Time Book of the Year; Choice Outstanding Academic Title Rebecca West BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON A Journey through Yugoslavia Anthony Loyd “Almost 50 years after its initial publication, astonishes us MY WAR GONE BY, I MISS IT SO by the weight and depth of what Rebecca West knew “Battlefield reportage does not get more up close, grue- about Yugoslavia.”—The New York Times Books Review. some and personal.”—The New York Times. “An extraordi- Penguin Classics • 1,216 pp. • 978-0-14-310490-2 • $25.00 nary evocation of the war in Bosnia.”—Kirkus Reviews. Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-029854-3 • $16.00

Agate Nesaule A WOMAN IN AMBER Healing the Trauma of War and Nesaule’s memoir recounts how she and her family fled World War II only to be captured by Germans, then , before making it safely to the United States. “A brave and subtle confrontation with childhood memo- ries of extreme horror.”—Eva Hoffman. Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-026190-5 • $16.00

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Anton Chekhov EARLY PERIOD THE MAJOR PLAYS Foreword by Robert Brustein Anonymous Afterword by Rosamund Bartlett f THE SONG OF IGOR’S CAMPAIGN Includes , , , The Three Sis- ters, and . Translated with a Foreword by The most imaginative, celebrated and studied work of Signet Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-451-53037-0 • $7.95 early Russian literature, restored to its original form by SELECTED STORIES Nabokov. Translated by Overlook • 128 pp. • 978-0-87501-061-8 • $14.95 Introduction by George Pahomov Includes “The Confession,” “He Understood,” “At Sea—A Serge A. Zenkovsky, editor Sailor’s Story,” “A Nincompoop,” “,” “Ninochka—A MEDIEVAL RUSSIA’S EPICS, Love Story,” “A Cure for Drinking,” “The Jailer Jailed,” “The CHRONICLES AND TALES Dance Pianist,” “The Milksop,” “Marriage in Ten or Fifteen Revised and Enlarged Edition Years,” “In Spring,” “,” “The Kiss,” “The Father,” “,” Translated with an Introduction by the editor “,” “The House with the Mansard,” “An Artists Over sixty selections from the finest of Russia’s authors of Tale,” “,” and “The Darling.” the 11th– through 17th–centuries—much of the mate- Signet Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-451-52879-7 • $6.95 rial never before available in English. Each selection is prefaced. Chronology, glossary, maps, photos. THE PORTABLE CHEKHOV Plume • 544 pp. • 978-0-452-01086-4 • $20.00 Edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky Includes complete versions of two plays, The Cherry Orchard and The Boor; twenty eight short stories includ- ing “,” “At the Mill,” “The Culprit,” “The Letter,” “The NINETEENTH CENTURY Kiss,” “Above Love,” “At ,” “,” “,” “Peasants,” and a selection of letters. Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-015035-3 • $18.00 THE LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG A LIFE IN LETTERS And Other Stories, 1896-1904 Translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips Translated by Ronald Wilks Introduction and Notes by Rosamund Bartlett Introduction by Paul Debreczeny “Colorful, informative, often humorous and occasionally Includes “The House with the Mezzanine,” “,” “Peas- outspoken, they provide a unique insight into his social ants,” “A Visit to Friends,” “,” “,” “In the networking and day-to-day preoccupations…a very wel- Ravine,” “,” “The Bride,” “Disturbing the Balance,” come addition to the literature on Chekhov in English.”— and the title story. The Times Literary Supplement. Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-044787-3 • $13.00 Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044922-8 • $16.00 THE SHOOTING PARTY Fyodor Dostoyevsky Translated by Ronald Wilks Introduction by John Sutherland Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff Chekhov’s only full-length novel. Penguin Classics • 960 pp. • 978-0-14-044924-2 • $16.00 Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044898-6 • $14.00 Translated by WARD NO. 6 Edited with a Foreword by Manuel Komroff And Other Stories, 1892-1895 Afterword by Sara Paretsky Translated and Edited with Notes by Ronald Wilks Signet Classics • 928 pp. • 978-0-451-53060-8 • $7.95 Introduction by J. Douglas Clayton Includes “,” “Murder,” “The Grasshopper,” “A Woman’s Kingdom,” “Three Years,” “The Student,” “Adriana,” Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff “The Two Volodyas,” and the title story. With a chronology and suggestions for further reading. Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-044786-6 • $11.00 Penguin Classics • 718 pp. • 978-0-14-044913-6 • $14.00 Translated by Sidney Monas PLAYS Introduction by David Stanton and James D. Hardy, Jr. Translated with Notes by Peter Carson Afterword by Robin Feuer Miller Introduction by Douglas Gilman Signet Classics • 560 pp. • 978-0-451-53006-6 • $7.95 Vibrant new of the dramatic masterpieces Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, , and The Cherry Orchard. Penguin Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-044733-0 • $10.00

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Dostoyevsky DEMONS f POOR FOLK Translated by Robert A. Maguire and Ronald Meyer And Other Stories Introduction by Robert L. Belknap Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff Dostoyevsky’s chilling and prophetic novel of revolution- Also includes “The Land-Lady,” “Mr. Porkharchin,” and ary fanaticism. “Polzunkov.” Penguin Classics • 880 pp. • 978-0-14-144141-2 • $18.00 Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044505-3 • $11.00 f THE DOUBLE Translated with an Introduction by Robert Dessaix Two Versions Overlook • 144 pp. • 978-0-88233-755-5 • $13.95 Translated with an Introduction by Evelyn Harden THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO Complete with Dostoyevsky’s extensive revisions, added Translated with an Introduction by Ignat Avsey fifteen years after the book’s original publication. Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044658-6 • $15.00 Overlook • 294 pp. • 978-0-88233-757-9 • $16.95 THE GAMBLER/ BOBOK/ A NASTY STORY Translated by Jessie Coulson DEAD SOULS Penguin Classics • 250 pp. • 978-0-14-044179-6 • $14.00 Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Robert A. Maguire THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD “The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced.” Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff —Vladimir Nabokov. Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-044456-8 • $12.00 Penguin Classics • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-044807-8 • $14.00 THE DIARY OF A MADMAN, Translated by David McDuff THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR Introduction by William Mills Todd III And Selected Stories Penguin Classics • 768 pp. • 978-0-14-044792-7 • $14.00 Introduction by Robert Maguire Translated by Henry and Olga Carlisle Translated by Ronald Wilks Introduction by Henry Rosenburg Also includes “,” “The Overcoat,” “How Ivan Afterword by Gary Rosenshield Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich,” and “Ivan Signet Classics • 688 pp. • 978-0-451-52838-4 • $6.95 Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt.” Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14044907-5 • $12.00 NETOCHKA NEZANOVA Translated with an Introduction by Jane Kentish THE DIARY OF A MADMAN Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-044455-1 • $14.00 And Other Stories f Translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew and Priscilla Meyer NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND Afterword by Priscilla Meyer and THE DOUBLE Includes “The Nose,” “The Carriage,” “The Overcoat,” “Taras Translated by Ronald Wilks Bulba,” and the title story. Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-52954-1 • $5.95 Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-045512-0 • $14.00

Translated with an Introduction by Jesse Coulson Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044252-6 • $11.00 OBLOMOV NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND Translated by David Magarshack Translated with an Afterword by Andrew R. MacAndrew Introduction and Notes by Milton Ehre Introduction by Ben Marcus Penguin Classics • 496 pp. • 978-0-14-044987-7 • $15.00 Includes “White Nights,” “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” and selections from The House of the Dead. Mikhail Lermontov Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52955-8 • $4.95 f A HERO OF OUR TIME Foreword by Neil LaBute NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND Translated with an Introduction by Natasha Randall and THE GRAND INQUISITOR “A smart, spirited new .”—The Boston Globe. Translated by Constance Garnett “One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the Introduction and Translation of male ego ever put down on paper.”—Neil LaBute. Background material by Ralph E. Matlaw Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-310563-3 • $14.00 Also includes passages from Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Visit us.penguingroup.com/Lermontov Done?, selections from Dostoyevsky’s Letters and Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Schcedrin’s The Swallows and Translated with an Introduction by Paul Foote Dostoyevsky’s Mr. Shchedrin, or Schism Among the Nihilists. Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044795-8 • $14.00 Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-28558-3 • $14.00 Translated by Vladimir Nabokov in collaboration with Dmitri Nabokov Introduction and Notes by Vladimir Nabokov Overlook • 210 pp. • 978-0-87501-049-6 • $14.95

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Alexander Pushkin TALES OF BELKIN And Other Prose Writings Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Translated by Ronald Wilks Introduction by Richard Pevear Introduction by John Bayley “Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators Also includes the novel fragment “Roslavlev,” “Egyptian and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering Nights,” and the autobiographical “Journey to Arzrum.” allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044675-3 • $13.00 of Tolstoy’s characters, acts, situations.”—The New Yorker. Penguin • 864 pp. • 978-0-14-303500-8 • $17.00 f EUGENE ONEGIN PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Stanley Mitchell Translated by David Magarshack Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044810-8 • $14.00 Introduction by Priscilla Meyer Signet Classics • 960 pp. • 978-0-451-52861-2 • $6.95 Translated and Edited by Walter Arndt Overlook • 224 pp. • 978-0-87501-106-6 • $14.95 CHILDHOOD/ BOYHOOD/ YOUTH Translated by Rosemary Edmonds THE QUEEN OF SPADES Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-044139-0 • $16.00 And Other Stories Translated with an Introduction by Rosemary Edmonds f A CONFESSION and Other Religious Writings Includes “The Captain’s Daughter,” and the unfinished Translated by Jane Kentish “Negro of Peter the Great,” and “Dubrovsky.” Tolstoy probes questions concerning his life religion in Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-044119-2 • $15.00 these writings: “Religion and Mortality,” “What is Religion and of What Does Its Essence Consist?,” and “The Law of f COLLECTED NARRATIVE Love and the Law of Violence.” AND LYRICAL POETRY Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044473-5 • $14.00 Translated and Edited by Walter Arndt Overlook • 472 pp. • 978-0-88233-826-2 • $18.95 A CONFESSION Great Ideas Leo Tolstoy Penguin • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-104255-8 • $10.00 f RESURRECTION THE COSSACKS and Other Stories Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Anthony Briggs Translated with Notes by David McDuff and Paul Foote In this story of a fallen man and an emphatically non-Chris- Introduction by Paul Foote tian “resurrection,” Tolstoy writes a compelling tale of the underworld and turns a highly critical eye on the law, the Also includes “The Stevastopol Sketches” and “Hadji Murat.” penal system and the Church. Penguin Classics • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-044959-4 • $18.00 Penguin Classics • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-042463-8 • $16.0 THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH WAR AND PEACE And Other Stories Translated by Anthony Briggs Translated and Edited by Anthony Briggs, Introduction by Orlando Figes Ronald Wilks, and David McDuff “This is the best translation so far of Tolstoy’s master- Introduction by Anthony Briggs piece into English.”—Robert A. Maguire, Columbia Univ. Also includes “The Raid,” “The Woodfelling,” “Three Deaths,” “In Tolstoy’s work part of the translator’s difficulty lies in “Polikushka,” “After the Ball,” and “The Forged Coupon.” conveying not only the simplicity but the subtlety of the Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044961-7 • $11.00 book’s scale and effect….Professor Briggs has rendered Translated by Aylmer J.D. Duff both with a particular exactness and a vigorous position Afterword by Hugh McLean not to be found, I think, in any previous translation.”— Also includes “Family ,” “The Kreutzer Sonata,” John Bayley. Includes an introduction, note on the and “Master and Man.” translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major Signet Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-451-52880-3 • $6.95 battles depicted, and chapter summaries. Penguin Classics • 1,400 pp. • 978-0-14-044793-4 • $18.00 HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? Deluxe Edition And Other Stories Penguin Classics • 1,400 pp. • 978-0-14-303999-0 • $18.00 Edited with an Introduction by A. N. Wilson Also includes “The Woodfelling,” “Where Love Is, God Is,” Translated by Rosemary Edmonds Penguin Classics • 1,472 pp. • 978-0-14-044417-9 • $16.00 “What Men Live By,” “Neglect a Spark and the House Burns Down,” “The Two Old Men,” “The Raid,” “A Prisoner of the Translated by Ann Dunnigan Caucasus,” and the novella Two Hussars. Introduction by Pat Conroy Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044506-0 • $15.00 Signet Classics • 1,456 pp. • 978-0-451-53054-7 • $10.95

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Leo Tolstoy THE KREUTZER SONATA and Other Stories SKETCHES FROM A HUNTER’S ALBUM Translated and Edited by David McDuff and Paul Foote Translated by Richard Freeborn Introduction by Donna Orwin Contains all twenty-fiveSketches . Also includes “Family Happiness,” “The Devil,” and “Father Penguin Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-044522-0 • $14.00 Sergius.” Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044960-0 • $11.00 SPRING TORRENTS Translated with an Introduction by Leonard Schapiro f LAST STEPS Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044369-1 • $15.00 The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy Translated by Aylmer Maude and Leo Wiener FORTUNE’S FOOL Edited with an Introduction by Jay Parini Adapted by Mike Poulton Overlook • 110 pp. • 978-1-58567-451-0 • $14.95 A collection of Tolstoy’s writing and letters of his final year, in which he attempted to reconcile his life and work. Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-119119-5 • $14.00 TWENTIETH CENTURY MASTER AND MAN And Other Stories Translated and Annotated by Ronald Wilks and Paul Foote Introduction by Hugh McLean RED CAVALRY AND OTHER STORIES The first of four revised volumes of Tolstoy’s short fiction. Edited with Notes by Efraim Sicher Also includes “What Men Live By,” “Strider,” “God Sees the Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff Truth But Waits,” and the novella The Two Hussars. Masterly short fiction from the early Soviet period, based Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044962-4 • $15.00 on the complete, original text taken from an unexpur- gated Russian edition. “Marvelously subtle, tragic and WHAT IS ART? often comic.”—The New Republic. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-044997-6 • $15.00 Preface by Richard Pevear Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044642-5 • $14.00 Ivan Turgenev A DEAD MAN’S MEMOIR f FATHERS AND SONS Translated by Andrew Bromfield Translated by Peter Carson Introduction by Keith Gessen Introduction by Rosamund Bartlett One of the most popular on the Russian Revolu- Afterword by Tatiana Tolstaya tion and Soviet society. “The book is gentle in tone if Captures the clash between the Russian aristocracy of the fierce in substance.”—The New York Times Book Review. 19th-century and the youthful radicalism that foreshad- Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-045514-4 • $14.00 owed the revolution of the 20th. THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-144133-7 • $13.00 Translated by Richard Pevear and Larisa Volokhonsky Translated by Rosmary Edmonds Introduction by Richard Pevear Includes the Romances lecture “Fathers and ” by An artful collage of grotesqueries, dark comedy and time- Isaiah . less ethical questions, Bulgakov’s devastating of Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-0441475 • $12.00 Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stal- in’s regime and remained unpublished for more than Translated by George Reavy twenty-five years after its completion. “Shocking, touch- Introduction by Jane Costlow ing, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other.”— Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52969-5 • $6.95 Amazon.com. FIRST LOVE Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-118014-4 • $14.00 Translated by Isaiah Berlin Introduction by V.S. Pritchett Penguin Classics • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-044335-6 • $10.00 THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO HOME OF THE GENTRY And Other Stories Translated by Richard Freeborn Translated with an Introduction by David Richards and Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044224-3 • $15.00 Sophie Lund Penguin Classics • 234 pp. • 978-0-14-018552-2 • $15.00 RUDIN Translated by Richard Freeborn Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-044304-2 • $14.00 MY CHILDHOOD Translated by Ronald Wilks Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-018285-9 • $13.95

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Gustaw Herling Yury Tynyanov A WORLD APART YOUNG PUSHKIN Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp Translated by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush During World War II Introduction by Anna Kurkina Rush Translated by Ronald Strom The first English translation of the glorious epic novel of Preface by Russia’s golden age. “A sparkling jewel of an historical “Should be published and read in every country.”—Al- novel—sumptuous entertainment that compellingly rec- bert Camus. reates a golden era, an eccentric family, and Russia’s Penguin • 284 pp. • 978-0-14-025184-5 • $15.00 greatest poet in his wild and brilliant youth.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore. Overlook • 544 pp. • 978-1-58567-962-1 • $35.00 f TODAY I WROTE NOTHING The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms Translated by Matvei Yankelevich “Kharms’s playful and poetic work...[draws] critical com- Translated with an Introduction by Clarence Brown parisons to Beckett, Camus, and Ionesco.”—The New Zamyatin’s masterpiece—recognized as the inspiration Yorker. for Orwell’s 1984—describes life under a regimented Overlook • 288 pp. • 978-1-59020-042-1 • $15.95 totalitarian society. “The best single work of science fic- tion yet written.”—Ursula K. LeGuin. Vladimir Makanin Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-018585-0 • $14.00 f ESCAPE HATCH and THE LONG ROAD AHEAD Mikhail Zoschenko Two Novellas f THE GALOSH “Makanin’s name belongs at the top of any list of post And Other Stories socialist surrealists.”—The New York Times Book Review. Translated by Jeremy Hicks Overlook • 192 pp. • 978-0-37570-108-5 • $15.00 Sixty-five satirical tales, including “A Speech About Brib- ery,” “A Bathhouse,” “A Dogged Sense of Smell,” and “Elec- trification,” from “a writer who recorded, with unfailing KOLYMA TALES style and wit, an era’s troubles and a people’s voice.”—Los Translated with a Foreword by John Glad Angeles Times. “One of the most awe-inspiring works of literature to have Overlook • 213 pp. • 978-1-59020-211-1 • $14.95 come out of the …. a true historical record and a formidable piece of literary invention.”—The London Sun- day Telegraph. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-018695-6 • $17.00

Fyodor Sologub Yury Olesha f THE PETTY DEMON f ENVY Translated with an Introduction by S.D. Cioran Translated with an Introduction by T.S. Berczynski Appendix and Critical Articles Edited by Muri Barker A scathing satirical novel that keenly explores and exposes “The most perfect Russian novel since the death of the paradigmatic conflicts of the early Soviet age. Dostoyevsky.”—D.S. Mirsky. Fully restored to its original, Overlook • 120 pp. • 978-0-88233-091-4 • $13.95 uncensored form. Overlook • 352 pp. • 978-0-88233-808-8 • $17.95 Victor Pelevin f THE SACRED BOOK OF THE WEREWOLF Translated by Andrew Bromfield Alexander Solzhenitsyn The world’s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance. f ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH “Racy, thought-provoking, and perverse….A joy to read.” Translated by Ralph Parker —The New York Times Book Review. Introduction by Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311603-5 • $15.00 Afterword by Eric Bogosian A New York Times Notable Book NAL • 208 pp. • 978-0-451-22814-7 • $14.00 Signet Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-451-53104-9 • $5.95 HOMO ZAPIENS Translated by Andrew Bromfield “[Pelevin’s] best novel…his hardboiled wonderland of sits well next to Murakami’s Tokyo, Cortázar’s and Gilliam’s Brazil.”—Los Angeles Times. For instructions on requesting permission to photocopy Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-200181-3 • $15.00 Penguin Group (u s a ) titles, for coursepacks and for general classroom use go to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400.

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Victor Pelevin Osip Mandelstam BUDDHA’S LITTLE FINGER SELECTED POEMS Translated by Andrew Bromfield Translated by James Greene “Structurally cunning and delightfully intense…a work of rare Forewords by and Donald Davie intelligence and bite.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. “These translations have been made with scrupulous Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-100232-3 • $16.00 care, poetic tact and love…They ring true to the classical gravity of the original.”—The Times Literary Supplement. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-018474-7 • $15.00 f THERE ONCE LIVED A WOMAN WHO Also in Overlook: Critical Prose and Letters, 978-0-88233-164-5 TRIED TO KILL HER NEIGHBOR’S BABY Scary Fairy Tales Selected and Translated with an Introduction SELECTED POEMS by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers Translated with an Introduction by Elaine Feinstein Russia’s preeminent fiction writer here blends the miracu- “One of the most important poets of this century.” lous with the macabre and darkly humorous. “An extraordi- —The New York Times Book Review. nary, powerful collection by a master of the Russian short Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-018759-5 • $15.00 story.”—Olga Grushin, author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov. f A CAPTIVE SPIRIT Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311466-6 • $15.00 Collected Poems Translated and Edited by J. Marin King MONUMENTAL PROPAGANDA Introduction by Susan Sontag Overlook • 491 pp. • 978-0-87501-177-6 • $21.95 Translated by Andrew Bromfield “The changing carnival of Russia…is, told in Voinovich’s f A POEM OF THE END resourceful and acidic prose, at once surreal and plausi- Selected Narrative and Lyrical Poems ble, cruel and hilarious, grotesque and heartbreaking, Translated by Nina Kossman symbolic and real.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “Possibly Introduction by Laura Weeks the most important Russian satirical writer of the last fifty A bilingual collection of six narrative poems and an array of years.”—The New York Review of Books. lyrics, many translated into English for the first time. Overlook • 368 pp. • 978-1-58567-811-2 • $14.95 Overlook • 120 pp. • 978-0-87501-176-9 • $17.95

Yevgeny Yevtushenko POETRY SELECTED POEMS Newly Translated by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi Introduction by Robin Milner-Gulland Anna Akhmatova A bracing new translation of the work of Russia’s best-known f SELECTED POEMS post-Stalin poet. “A literary colossus.”—The Economist. Translated with an Introduction by D. M. Thomas Penguin Classics • 96 pp. • 978-0-14-042477-5 • $14.00 From the joy of Leningrad in spring to the terror of Stalin, Akhmatova’s poetry captures the spirit and power of her Mark Yakich land and its people. THE IMPORTANCE OF Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-042464-5 • $15.00 PEELING POTATOES IN Translated by Walter Arndt, Robin Kemball, and Carl Proffer “Yakich’s poetry radiates an aura of fresher imaginative Edited with an Introduction by Walter Arndt possibilities that is invigorating in politically literal Overlook • 202 pp. • 978-0-88233-180-5 • $17.95 times.”—San Francisco Chronicle. Penguin Poets • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-311333-1 • $18.00 Also in Penguin: Unrelate.d Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross 978-0-14-200451-7 f COLLECTED NARRATIVE and LYRICAL POETRY Translated and Edited by Walter Arndt Overlook • 472 pp. • 978-0-88233-826-2 • $18.95 For more Pushkin titles, see page 8

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Sholem Aleichem Jaroslav Hašek f WANDERING STARS THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK AND Newly Translated by Aliza Shevrin HIS FORTUNES IN THE WORLD WAR Foreword by Tony Kushner Translated with an Introduction by Cecil Parrott The first complete translation of the epic love story set in Illustrated by Josef Lada the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. “Clearly the The unabridged, unbowdlerized translation of “perhaps invention of a gifted storyteller.”—Los Angeles Times. the funniest novel ever written.”—George Monbiot. Viking • 496 pp. • 978-0-670-02052-2 • $29.95 Penguin Classics • 784 pp. • 978-0-14-044991-4 • $16.00 f TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN and MOTL THE CANTOR’S SON Jan Potocki Newly Translated by Aliza Shevrin THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA introduction by Dan Miron Translated by Ian MacLean For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the “Jewish Mark Potocki’s masterpiece—framed as a diary written by a Twain,” a new translation of his most famous works. traveler in Spain, sealed in a casket, and discovered forty years later—explores the dark side of the European Penguin Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-31056-2 • $16.00 Enlightenment.“ A masterwork of European roman- ticism.” — Book World. Tadeusz Borowski Penguin Classics • 656 pp. • 978-0-14-044580-0 • $17.00 THIS WAY FOR THE GAS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Bruno Schulz Translated by Barbara Vedder THE STREET OF CROCODILES Introduction by Jan Kott And Other Stories Published in Poland after World War II, Borowski’s collec- Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer tion of concentration camp stories shows atrocious crimes Introduction by David A. Goldfarb becoming an unremarkable part of a daily routine. Translated by Celina Wieniewski Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-018624-6 • $14.00 “One of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.”— . Contains the author’s complete fic- Karel Čapek tion, including three short stories and his final surviving R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Translated by Claudia Novack Illustrated with Schulz’s original drawings. Introduction by Ivan Klíma Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310514-5 • $15.00 The first English translation since 1923. “A great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, THE STREET OF CROCODILES blackly funny, and prophetic.”— Jr. Transalted by Celina Wieniewski with and Introduction by Penguin Classics • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-118208-7 • $10.00 Jerzy Ficowski Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-018625-3 • $14.00 Slavenka Drakulić S.: A Novel About the Balkans “Drakulić has given the world a gift, digging into the twisted reality of war . . . a novel of cataclysmic power.” —San Francisco Chronicle. “Drakulić uses a fictional every- woman, S., to convey the complex psychological torture of the victims of large-scale, systematic rape during the Bosnian war.”—Amazon.com. Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-029844-4 • $15.00

Emma Goldman LIVING MY LIFE Edited with an Introduction by Miriam Brody This classic memoir of revolution is an abridged version of Goldman’s two-volume autobiography that takes her Try Our online Table of Contents feature from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist Go to www.penguin.com/toc and search by ISBN enclaves of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. (13-digit book #) for the tables of contents to hundreds of Penguin academic titles. Penguin Classics • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-243785-8 • $18.00

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Robert Alexander Keith Gessen f THE ROMANOV BRIDE f ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN A tale of Romanov intrigue set against a backdrop of Impe- “Gessen proves himself not only a capable observer but a rial Russia’s twilight. “Breathtaking.”—Minneapolis Star Tri- natural novelist with a warm gun…[and] a nice comic bune. “This passionate yet polished third installment of the sureness.”—The New York Times Book Review. author’s series of historical about the end of the Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311477-2 • $15.00 Russian monarchy…brings from the vault of history the life of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth.”—Booklist. Olga Grushin Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311507-6 • $15.00 f THE LINE THE KITCHEN BOY An estranged family in Soviet Russia joins a colorful group Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-200381-7 • $15.00 of strangers waiting in a yearlong line for tickets—a line which formed on the rumor that a famous exiled composer RASPUTIN’S DAUGHTER will be returning to Moscow to conduct his last symphony. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303865-8 • $14.00 Putnam • 304 pp. • 978-0-39915-616-8 • $25.95

David Benioff THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV f CITY OF THIEVES “Harks back to the great Russian masters [and] breathes new life into American literary fiction.”—The Washington Post. During the siege of Leningrad, two prisoners—a looter “Outstanding…evokes the grit, weirdness and secret sweet- and a deserter—navigate their brutal, deprived and law- ness of late Soviet Moscow.”—The Times Literary Supplement. less surroundings. “Ingenious plot….Shifts tone with per- Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-303840-5 • $14.00 fect control—no recent novel I’ve read travels so quickly Orange Prize shortlist; a New York Times Notable Book; and surely between registers, from humor to devas- New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award tation.”—The New York Times Book Review. Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-29529-2 • $15.00 ALA/RUSA Notable Book; Alex Award; Amazon Editor’s Choice; Aleksandar Hemon Booklist Editor’s Choice f THE LAZARUS PROJECT A young Eastern European immigrant becomes obsessed J.M. Coetzee with the century-old murder of a young Jewish immigrant. THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG “A masterful new novel…Ingenious….Hemon is as much a writer of the sense as of the intellect.”—The Washington Coetzee imagines the life of Dostoevsky. “A fascinating Post Book Review. “Unpacks 100 years’ worth of immigrant study of the dark mysteries of creativity, grief, relation- delusion, displacement and desperation.”—Publishers ships between fathers and sons, and of the great Russian Weekly (starred). “Astonishing.”—The New Yorker. themes of love and death.”—The Wall Street Journal. Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-375-2 • $16.00 Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-023810-5 • $15.00 A National Book Award finalist; a New York Times Notable Book

T. Cooper f LOVE AND OBSTACLES: Stories LIPSHITZ SIX, OR TWO ANGRY BLONDES “As much as [this collection] is about cultural displace- “[An] unusual and avowedly postmodern new novel… ment…it’s also about coming of age. Mr. Hemon’s genius enhanced by Cooper’s considerable descriptive powers, is to write about these two ordeals together, making each which bring to life such varied tableaus as a Russian a proxy for the other.”—The New York Observer. “Bosnian- pogrom, a Lower East side gang fight and a Lindbergh born Hemon again beautifully twists the language in this rally in Oklahoma city.”—The New York Times. collection of eight powerful and disquieting stories.”— Plume • 448 pp. • 978-0-452-28806-5 • $14.00 Publishers Weekly (starred). Riverhead • 224 pp. • 978-1-59448-864-1 • $25.95 Jon Fasman f THE UNPOSSESSED CITY Marina Lewycka “Fasman’s Moscow is beautiful, tragic, brutal, and STRAWBERRY FIELDS exhilarating.”—Booklist. “Literate and engaging….The “A comedy about a somber subject: the exploitation of moving story of a smart, humble man making peace with migrant workers, who are drawn or driven to lands of his roots, coming of age as an adult….Highly descriptive opportunity by degrading and desperate conditions at and absorbing.”—Los Angeles Times. home, only to become desperate and degraded Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311615-8 • $15.00 themselves.”—Los Angeles Times. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311355-3 • $14.00 Tig Hague A SHORT HISTORY OF TOMORROW YOU GO HOME TRACTORS IN UKRANIAN One Man’s Harrowing Imprisonment “An urgent and potent book in which the domestic insan- in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag ity of misguided passion is played out against the tragic The story of a British businessman who became mired in insanity of Ukrainian history.”—Buffalo News. the corrupt Russian prison system. Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-303674-6 • $15.00 Gotham • 320 pp. • 978-1-592-40375-2 • $26.00 Orange Prize finalist; Man Booker Prize nominee

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Anya Ulinich Robert Chandler, editor PETROPOLIS RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES A Russian mail-order bride tries to find her place in Amer- FROM PUSHKIN TO BUDIA ica. “Audacious, clever and lively…a nervy social satire in Includes stories from Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dos- the spirit of Tom Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Gish Jen, Gary toyevsky, Tolstoy, Bunin, Babel, Zoshenko, Dobychin, Shteyngart, and Lara Vapnyar.”—Chicago Tribune. Shalamov, Solzhenitsyn, Dovlatov, and many others, plus Penguin • 324 pp. • 978-0-14-311301-0 • $14.00 an introduction to the history of the Russian short story, National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” recipient ; prefaces to the individual writers, chronology, explana- a Booklist Editor’s Choice, Adult Books for Young Adults tory notes, and suggestions for further reading. selection, and Top 10 First Novels of the Year Penguin Classics • 656 pp. • 978-0-14-044846-7 • $17.00

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