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The Book of Happiness, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1917

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 in Paris, and the [...]

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The Ladies from St. Petersburg, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1915

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 stands as one of [...]

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The Tattered Cloak, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 10, 1907

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, [...]

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The Accompanist, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 11, 1903

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 girl’s jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a [...]

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