Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggle...
In Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia, José Manuel Prieto has beautifully crafted, through sparingly written, alphabetical entries, a portrait of modern life in Russia. Poetic, humorous, truth-seeking, and fanciful, Prieto melds literature, philosophy...