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 i...
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, e...
"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...
"A tour de force—exquisite and gripping."—Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetThe Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them mor...
<p>The mystical laundress at the center of this novel is obsessed with purity. Her task is formidable as she stands guard over a sealed shaft at a Ukrainian coal mine that hides terrible truths. The bodies of dead Jews lying in its depths seem ...