A fascination with romantic movies leads three teenagers growing up in a small Soviet village in the 1970s to follow their dreams all the way to Brooklyn's Brighton Beach. By the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers. Reprint.

Once upon the River Love

Literature & Fiction

Makine, Andreï

Strachan, Geoffrey

Contemporary

Penguin Group USA

Olga Arbyelina--a rumored Russian princess, refugee from the Bolsheviks, and abandoned wife--is found half-naked on the riverbank, next to the body of a man who mysteriously drowned, in a new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Dreams of My Russian Summers. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

Capturing the harsh realities of postwar Soviet life, a new novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers follows the fortunes of two families, those of close friends Iakov Zinger and Peter Evdokimov, as they struggle to put together their shattered lives and dreams in the years following World War II. Reprint.

Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer

Le Testament Francais

Sceptre

On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Gradually the story emerges of his grandmother's subsequent life in Russia, through the horrors of the revolution and World War II. Torn between two cultures, he eventually leaves after the fall of the Berlin Wall for Paris, and discovers how far his imagination led him from reality. But he stays, until a letter arrives containing an astonishing revelation.

They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route?This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two young pioneers. Inseparable, the two men have been through the grueling war against the Germans, with all its horror and senseless carnage. Yakov—or Yasha, as he was known—emerged physically intact but scarred forever "from the moment he had been lifted out of a mountain of frozen bodies at a camp in liberated Poland.” Pyotr, a skilled sniper who operated behind the German lines, lost both his legs, not at the hands of the Germans, but as a result of an artillery "mistake" by his own forces. Together, in these postwar, Cold War years, the two families try to piece together their shattered lives.

Confessions of a fallen Standard-bearer

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Arcade Publishing

Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer

Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known about her when, in the summer of 1947, she is suspected of murdering a fellow emigre, only for the case to be dropped. As the story of the preceding year unfolds, a picture forms of her upbringing in Russia followed by her exile and marriage in France, and the details of a darker, hidden crime begin to emerge, encircling the narrative in an ever-tightening snare.

Requiem for the East

Amid the ashes of the Soviet Union a Russian army doctor turned spy addresses the woman he loves -- a fellow spy who has shared his shadowy life in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, but who has disappeared. The tale he unfolds spans three generations of his family, ordinary people caught up in the convulsions of the Russian empire in the twentieth century, from the civil war through the Second World War to beyond the fall of communism. It is a tale of brutality and soured dreams yet also one of altruism, tenacity and immense courage, written by a master.

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Once upon the River Love

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer

Le Testament Francais

Le Testament Francais

Confessions of a fallen Standard-bearer

Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

Requiem for the East

Requiem for the East