Gaito Gazdanov

• 1979
• / Literary
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• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Drawing together episodes of rich atmosphere, this novel is as deep and brooding as the Paris nights that serve as its backdrop. Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov arrived in Paris, as so many did, between the wars and would go on, with this fourth novel,...

• Dec-2013
• / Mystery
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A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the el...

• Jun-2014
• / Literary
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Originally published in 1930, Gaito Gazdanov’s An Evening with Claire is a masterpiece of Russian émigré literature. Written when its author was just twenty-six -- with the memories of his harsh years in the Russian civil war still hauntingly viv...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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A millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream-like fits, is arrested and accused of murder.In typically crisp, unfussy prose, Gazdanov's delicately balanced novel is an irresistib...

• May-2016
• / Literary
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While summering on the French Riviera, the young Seryozha secretly becomes the lover of the much older Liza - who is also his father's mistress. As autumn approaches, they reluctantly part: Liza to return to Paris, Seryozha to take up his studies at ...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.

In a Metro underpass, bald and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted st...