Sergei Lebedev

• Feb-2026
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• Jan-2025
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"A monumental feat . . . a book of rare elemental power that lays bare the dark forces driving Putin's Russia today." -- Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the WestThe mystical laundress at the c...

• Apr-2023
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"A tour de force—exquisite and gripping."—Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them mo...

• Feb-2021
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"A thriller dipped in poison ... shares some of le Carré's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil." -- The New York TimesThe terrifying, lengthening list of Russia's use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired acclaimed aut...

• Mar-2019
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A man obsessively investigates the mysteries of his family's past in this "brave and unflinching" novel by the acclaimed Russian author of Oblivion (The Financial Times).Sergei Lebedev's first two novels, The Year of the Comet and Oblivion, establish...

• Feb-2017
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A coming of age novel set in a crumbling Soviet Union by the acclaimed author of Oblivion -- "the best of Russia's younger generation of writers"(The New York Review of Books).   As the Soviet Union edges toward collapse, a young boy's ...

• Jan-2016
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This acclaimed twenty-first -- century Russian novel is "a Dantean descent" into the abandoned Soviet gulags, written "with a clear poetic sensibility" (The Wall Street Journal).   In Sergei Lebedev's debut novel, an unnamed young man t...