Antonina W. Bouis has won critical praise for her more than ninety translations of contemporary Russian literature. Her most recent publications include Sergei Lebedev’s Oblivion (chosen as one the 10 best books of the year by the Wall Street Journal), The Goose Fritz (“brilliantly translated” Financial Times), and The Lady of the Mine.
Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.
When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.
After a century of brooding and talking telepathically to his Mausoleum janitor from his glass coffin, Vladimir Lenin awakens—alive and bewildered in the modern world.
A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.