Read Russia!: An Anthology of New Voices

Read Russia!: An Anthology of New Voices presents a new gift to American and English-speaking readers: thirty short works from Russia's leading contemporary writers. This 448-page collection is weighty and substantial, yet is also just a taste of the stunning writing coming out of Russia today. Contents: Basileus / Olga Slavnikova; Translated by Andrew Bromfield Whatever Day of the Week It Happens To Be / Zakhar Prilepin; Translated by Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas Shelter / Alexander Kabakov; Translated by Daniel Jaffe Dauntless Women of the Russian Steppe / Ludmila Ulitskaya; Translated by Arch Tait The Half-Belt Overcoat / Mikhail Shishkin; Translated by Leo Shtutin Sindbad the Sailor / Yury Buida; Translated by Oliver Ready A Family of Monsters / Igor Sakhnovsky; Translated by Hugh Aplin Hiroshima / Vladimir Sorokin; Translated by Jamey Gambrell Psycho’s One Night Stand / Sergey Kuznetsov; Translated by Andrew Bromfield Basya Solomovna’s Third World War / Margarita Khemlin; Translated by Lisa Hayden Espenschade The Lizard / Maria Galina; Translated by Deborah Hoffmann Birds of A Feather / Alexander Genis; Translated by Daniel Genis Gonzo / Andrei Rubanov; Translated by Polly Gannon Monologue of A Life Model / Dina Rubina; Translated by Marian Schwartz The Death of Manon / Yuri Miloslavsky; Translated by David Lapeza The Stone Bridge (Fragment) / Alexander Terekhov; Translated by Simon Patterson The Life and Death of Nicholas II / Eduard Radzinsky; Translated by Marian Schwartz Mozharovo / Dmitry Bykov; Translated by James Rann Chechnya, To Chechnya / Sergei Shargunov; Translated by John Narins More Elderly Person / Dmitry Danilov; Translated by Douglas Robinson The One-Day War / Vladimir Makanin; Translated by Bela Shayevich Verbal TNT / Yuri Polyakov; Translated by Leo Shtutin Idzhim / Roman Senchin; Translated by Lisa Hayden Espenschade The Agency / Anna Starobinets; Translated by Hugh Alpin Shaitans / Alisa Ganieva; Translated by Marian Schwartz Stars Over Lake Teleskoye / Irina Bogatyreva; Translated by Arch Tait Strike the Iron While It’s Hot, Boys! / Alexei Lukyanov; Translated by Michele Berdy The People’s Book / Igor Savelyev; Translated by Amanda Love-Darragh The Day When You Phone the Dead / German Sadulaev; Translated by Anna Gunin The Sparrow / Alexander Ilichevsky; Translated by Benjamin Paloff