Life Stories
Thesed are exciting, entertaining stories, sensitively and skillfully translated, with all the profits going to Russian hospice care. If you only buy one selection of Russian short stories in 2010, make it this one!
Thesed are exciting, entertaining stories, sensitively and skillfully translated, with all the profits going to Russian hospice care. If you only buy one selection of Russian short stories in 2010, make it this one!
I have enjoyed reading each of these stories. They present a different perspective, based on life in the Soviet Union and in Russia. It's also interesting to have biographies of each writer. I enjoy reading them and dating the stories, so that I can better imagine the time and place. I would highly recommend these stories to anyone, who enjoys a good read, but especially to those who seek a better understanding of the Russian spirit.
Thesed are exciting, entertaining stories, sensitively and skillfully translated, with all the profits going to Russian hospice care. If you only buy one selection of Russian short stories in 2010, make it this one!
I have enjoyed reading each of these stories. They present a different perspective, based on life in the Soviet Union and in Russia. It's also interesting to have biographies of each writer. I enjoy reading them and dating the stories, so that I can better imagine the time and place. I would highly recommend these stories to anyone, who enjoys a good read, but especially to those who seek a better understanding of the Russian spirit.
A novelist catches up with his future... a president is under house arrest after setting off a nuclear war... an off-planet skipper leads a hunt for a mysterious life-giving creature... a single mother protects her disabled son... a man finds serenity in his vacation-emptied city... a woman looks for love in silence... a thunderstorm turns lives upside down... an oligarch makes a unexpected career change... a detective solves a murder and doesn’t like what he finds... a family copes with Russia’s medieval future... a traveler grapples with Pushkin’s killer... a disaffected son mourns his mother...
Masterfully translated by some of the best Russian-English translators working today, these tales reassert the power of Russian literature to affect readers of all cultures in profound and lasting ways.
Best of all, 100% of the profits from the sale of this book will go to benefit Russian hospice—not-for-profit care for fellow human beings who are nearing the end of their own life stories.
The translators who gave of their time and talent are: Alexei Bayer, Michele Berdy, Liv Bliss, Lise Brody, Nora Favorov, Anne O. Fisher, Deborah Hoffman, Marcia Karp, Michael Katz, Peter Morley, Susanna Nazarova, Anna Razumnaya-Seluyanova, Paul E. Richardson, Marian Schwartz, Bela Shayevich and Nina Shevchuk.
A nice review of the book by Lizok's Bookshelf.
