The Book of Happiness
By Nina Berberova
Translated by Marian Schwartz
New Directions, 1999
An outstanding novel about a young Russian woman's life in exile after the Russian Revolution. The Book of Happiness is one of the outstanding novels the great Russian writer Nina Berberova wrote during the years she lived [...]
The Ladies from St. Petersburg
By Nina Berberova
Translated by Marian Schwartz
New Directions, 1998; paperback ed., 2000
Selected by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of 1998, now available as a ND paperbook. Writing with a resonating clarity, unsentimental yet full of human sympathy., Nina Berberova [...]
The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels
By Nina Berberova
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Knopf, 1991; Vintage paperback ed., 1992; New Directions Classic, 2001
A New York Times Notable Book of 1991
The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, [...]
The Accompanist
By Nina Berberova
Translated by Marian Schwartz
London: Collins, 1987; New York: Atheneum, 1988; paperback ed., New Directions, 2003
A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russian about a young [...]
The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.