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Berberova’s Billancourt Tales Now out in Paperback

By mbs | Published: July 4, 2009

New Directions has just put out a paperback edition of my translation of Nina Berberova’s Billancourt Tales with an especially spiffy cover. Please buy it from your favorite independent bookstore. “The thirteen stories of Billancourt Tales are closely observed, potently phrased and dapperly shaped . . . . Marian Schwartz’s English translation defly captures the [...]

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The Billancourt Tales, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1920

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 [...]

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Cape of Storms, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1918

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 [...]

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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 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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