Contemporary Fiction & Poetry

A young Vasya blazes a magic trail from the backwoods of Russia to the court of Moscow, in the exhilarating sequel to Katherine Arden’s bestselling debut novel.

In the third book of the bestselling "Winternight Trilogy," Vasya returns to battle enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias -- the seen and the unseen.

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

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.

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

This book is an enchanting fable that brilliantly captures the idiosyncrasy of a small community in the Armenian mountains.

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".

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

Dystopian futurism by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographical area of the book. Original stories by: Lena Eltang, Serg

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