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Alexander Melikhov (pen name of Alexander Meilakhs; born July 29, 1947, Rossosh, Voronezh Oblast) is a Russian writer. He is the author of many well-known books, such as “The Provincial,” “Scales for the Good,” “Confessions of a Jew,” “Humpbacked Atlanteans, or the New Don Quixote,” “The Novel with Prostatitis,” “The Plague,” “Red Zion,” “Love Killer,” “Wise Men and Poets,” “Fools International,” “Birobidzhan – the Promised Land,” “Shadow of the Father,” “Republic of Korea: In Search of a Tale,” “Drifting Idols,” “Armor from the Cloud.” His novels “The Whole World is Allien to Us,” “And There Is No Retribution,” and “A Date with Quasimodo” have been short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize.
This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam’s most beloved and haunting poems.
Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary. (Magic realism/immigrant fiction.)
A book of poems in Russian by Victor Enyutin (San Francisco, 1983). Victor Enyutin is a Russian writer, poet, and sociologist who emigrated to the US from the Soviet Union in 1975.
This collection of personal essays by a bi-national Russian/U.S. author offers glimpses into many things Soviet and post-Soviet: the sacred, the profane, the mundane, the little-discussed and the often-overlooked. What was a Soviet school dance like? Did communists go to church? Did communists listen to Donna Summer? If you want to find out, read on!
