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White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov

White Guard By Mikhail Bulgakov Introduction by Evgeny Dobrenko Translated by Marian Schwartz Yale University Press, 2008; paperback ed. 2009
Winner, 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English
White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, [...]

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White on Black, by Ruben Gallego

White on Black
By Ruben Gallego
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Harcourt, 2006; paperback ed., 2007
Winner of the Soeurette Diehl Frasier Translation Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2007

This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with [...]

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A Hero of Our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov

A Hero of Our Time
By Mikhail Lermontov
Introduction by Gary Shteyngart
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Modern Library, 2004
Advance praise for A Hero of Our Time:
It's high time an up-to-date and idiomatic version of A Hero of Our Time was made available to American readers. Marian Schwartz's [...]

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Envy, by Yuri Olesha

Envy
By Yuri Olesha
Introduction by Ken Kalfus
Translated by Marian Schwartz
New York Review Books, 2004

A classic of Soviet literature, Envy is a humorous look at the individual’s struggle with an industrialized society. Marian Schwartz’s new English translation captures the energy and strangeness of this [...]

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The Billancourt Tales, by Nina Berberova

The Billancourt Tales By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 2001; paperback ed. 2009
Thirteen newly discovered stories by the great Russian writer, translated into English for the first time. Now added to the quartet of books [...]

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Cape of Storms, by Nina Berberova

Cape of Storms
By Nina Berberova
Translated by Marian Schwartz
New Directions, 2000

Cape of Storms, one of the great Russian writer's most fascinating novels, was published serially in 1951 in the Novyi Zhurnal -- and Nina Berberova herself, late in life, took the old migr journals off a shelf and [...]

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