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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 5 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781848666061 | ISBN 10: 1848666063
A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin. Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era. The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness ha ... more
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£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
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£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
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£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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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747587293 | ISBN 10: 0747587299
Zugzwang: Used in chess to describe a deadly position in which a player is obliged to move, but every move only makes his position even worse. St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he ... more
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