Contemporary Fiction & Poetry

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also wrote outstanding prose. Endowed with 'phenomenally heightened linguistic sensitivity' (Joseph Brodsky), Tsv

In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the Russian frontier on a mission to overthrow the Bolsheviks and restore the Czar. He vanished without a trace. The circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery. This classic autobiography reveals

From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.

An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn. Rumours of a serial killer haunt the n

Dystopian futurism by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, loosely based on on Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

A Soviet memoir that is equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditations on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art.

This exquisite collection of stories introduces a cast of remarkable Soviet characters, whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking.

A battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian "Night Witch" join forces to track the Huntress -- a Nazi war criminal hiding in post-war America.

In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.