Relaxing instrumental music, and a quiet, intelligible, dreamy male voice tells you the most terrifying stories from various corners of Russia. There’s something about a 19th century St. Petersburg ghost, as well as an episode about a UFO that landed in Voronezh in 1989. The podcaster, Grigo...
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but first of all I wanted to say how excited I was to hear that there is a prize for nonfiction books about Russia, because it seems a really important country to understand better. Do you want to tell me a bit about thePushkin House prizeand, specifically, what kind of books you’re...
What's War and Peace about? War and Peace (1869) is a novel that follows the lives of several aristocratic families during the French invasion of Russia and the Napoleonic Wars. It explores themes of love, war, politics, and the human condition, and is considered one of the great works ...
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October 28, 2024 through November 3, 2024 All the books to receive starred reviews inPWthat are hitting bookstore shelves this week. FICTION Canoes Maylis de Kerangal, trans. from the French by Jessica Moore. Archipelago, $19 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-953861-96-2 ...
and those books tend to keep me happy. But to be honest, I forget a lot of them as soon as I’ve moved on to the next. So the ones that stay with me are the ones that end up on my annual list. I’ve read about 300 books this year, so had plenty to choose from. And I’...
Also ranks #29 on The Best Movies About Neighbors 48 Birthday Girl Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel 57 votes When a lonely bank clerk orders a mail-order bride from Russia, his seemingly perfect match quickly turns out to be more than he bargained for. As he becomes embroiled in...
There is no shortage of great literature to come out of Russia, but this is one of the lesser-known and more accessible works. Rather than a sprawling multi-family epic likeWar and Peace(which is having a moment during the pandemic thanks to the#TolstoyTogetherdigital book club), Bely'sPet...