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Ghosts are not born by themselves. They are born of a silent conscience. They are as real as the ignored knowledge of crimes and the refusal to accept real responsibility. They are the distorted voice of the dead turned into mystical images. The voice of unwanted witnesses." A Present Past is a collection of short stories that brings to vivid life a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past. It features a judge overcome ...

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A novel about history both personal and political, and the mysteries of the past. This is the story of a young Russian named Kirill, the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin, who delves relentlessly into the unresolved past.

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A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.

A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbour who saved his life. One of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system.

One of Russia's most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel, Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern Russia."-Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Twilight of Democracy and Gulag: A HistoryThe terrifying, lengthening list of Russia's use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev's latest novel. With uncanny timing, he examines how and why Ru...

A Russian novel about poisons of all kinds - physical, moral, political - all rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations and Putin's continuation of the most degraded traditions of his country's history.

The "Oblivion" author praised by Knausgaard and Alexievich tells the story of one exceptional family's experience of the fluctuations of Russian history and identity.

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This masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to examine a very troubled Russia.

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This masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to examine a very troubled Russia.In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison-camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags...

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A stunning novel about growing up in Russia on the brink of collapse, from the preeminent storyteller of his generation.