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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, revolves around a Ukrainian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who [...]

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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 cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away [...]

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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 translation of Lermontov's classic adventure novel captures all [...]

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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 Russian masterpiece. A tour-de-force that has been compared to the [...]

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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 by Nina Berberova that New Directions has presented for the delight of American readers is this delectable [...]

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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 handed them to distinguished translator [...]

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