Alan Furst, whose novels include The Polish Officer (1995) and Dark Voyage (2004), and whose The Spies of Warsaw (2008) has just been published in paperback, has included Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg (which I translated with Richard D. Sylvester, published by New York Review Books in 2005), among his “FIve Best” spy tales, along with the likes of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. To read his review, click here.
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- Andrei Gelasimov’s “The Lying Year” ...
- St. Petersburg Noir ...
- Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair ...
- Yuzefovich, “Cranes and Pygmies” ...
- Olga Slavnikova’s Train Stories ...
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