Search Results: Titles starting with O from Globus Books

New York: Silver Arrow Books, 1988. Used. Excellent condition.. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 294 pp. First Edition. Readers will need a willing suspension of disbelief to enjoy this earnest pastiche of inspirational memoir/romantic adventure/science fiction, but then Bach's fans have swallowed everything from Jonathan Livingston Seagull to The Bridge Across Forever . Under the spell of quantum physics, Bach and his wife Leslie are catapulted into an alternate world, in which they exist simultaneously in many different incarnations. First they encounter themselves as they were 16 years ago on the day they first met; in this version of their lives, they do not marry, and never achieve the happiness Bach assures us that their real union has produced. Then we see Leslie as a poverty-stricken teenager who gives up her ambition to be a concert pianist, and Richard as an Air Force fighter pilot who will be responsible for the deaths of people in wartime. The adventures go farther afield to include encounters… Read More

Санкт-Петербург: Каро, 2020. New book. Переплет: Мягкий / Paperback Страниц: 544 / 544 pp. Полный текст романа в переводе с русского на английский язык Д. Магаршака. Вашему вниманию предлагается роман Ивана Александровича Гончарова "Обломов" (1859), который является вершиной критического реализма в русской классической литературе XIX века и одновременно произведением, не утратившим своей актуальности сегодня.В романе Гончаров представляет конфликт между мечтательным Обломовым и деятельным Штольцем. В этом конфликте автор не берёт ничью сторону. Обломов под… Read More

Alma Books, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 540 pp. First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely swindled by his acquaintances. But this torpid existence comes to an end when, spurred on by his crumbling finances, the love of a woman and the reproaches of his friend, the hard-working Stoltz, Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world and face up to his commitments. Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov - here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation, the first major English-language version of the novel in more than fifty years - is… Read More

Verso, 2018. New Book. Paperback. 384 pp. Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly. On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history. In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep, stretching from St Petersburg and Moscow to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire, Miéville uncovers the catastrophes, intrigues and inspirations of 1917, in all their passion, drama and strangeness. Intervening in long-standing historical debates, but told with the reader new to the topic especially in mind, here is a breathtaking story of humanity at its… Read More

Berkeley: Open Books, 1992. New Book. Paperback. 188 pp. Off Nevsky Prospect plunges the reader into the world of Leningrad's dissident artists under Gorbachev. As she works with the artists to organize an exchange of exhibitions with a small gallery near San Francisco, author Barbara Hazard draws us behind the scenes.

Random House Trade, 2020. New Book. Paperback. 288 pp. "[The] Ukrainian American heroine of this sweet-bitter debut is a wisecracking fatalist who can be counted on to say the inappropriate thing, a tendency that becomes more pronounced as doomed crushes and family crises pile up on the road to adulthood."--O: The Oprah Magazine When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal--and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting in trouble. As she grows up, she continues to misbehave, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school-bus bully, to stealing the much-coveted key to New York City's Gramercy Park, to falling in love with a married man. After her… Read More

London: Phaidon, 1966. Hardcover, Dust Jacket 290 pp. Condition: very good, light rubbing to the corners and spine ends. The general public is fairly well informed about Russian icon-painting, but not about ancient Russian murals, and only recently has a start been made towards publishing them in a systematic way; despite the considerable quality of early Russian mosaics and frescoes, a comprehensive work about them is still lacking. The fascination of these wall decorations lies in their monumentality, freshness and spontaneity of expression, and the simple, concise nature of their artistic methods. Although a direct and organic continuation of the Byzantine tradition, they have a specific character of their own which is deeply and unmistakably Russian. For this reason, within the general framework of medieval art and culture, they deserve their own special niche.

London: Laurence King, 1991. Hardcover, dust jacket, 191 pp. A photographic journey along the ancient trade routes north and south of Moscow.

New York: New Directions, 1998. New book. Paperback 154 pp. Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin ("a kind of Sovier Dr. Strangelove"―The New York Times); and a one-way assignment to the moon. The New Yorker proclaimed: "Omon's adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages―each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before.

Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2013. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 592 Эта книга - почти полное собрание сочинений замечательного прозаика, поэта и переводчика Андрея Сергеева (1933-1997), в 1996 году получившего Букеровскую премию за мемуарный роман "Альбом для марок". Кроме этого романа в книгу вошли рассказы и "рассказики" о выдуманных и невыдуманных людях (Б. Слуцкий, Е. Винокуров, М. Зенкевич и др.), воспоминания об И. Бродском, с которым автор был многие годы дружен, а также стихи. Широта эрудиции, острота и точность взгляда, стилевое мастерство, юмор и… Read More

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998. New Book. Paperback. 154 pp. Omon Ra, by the gifted Russian writer Victor Pelevin, is a pointed, dead-on-satire of the now-defunct Soviet space program, and a moving account of a cosmonaut's coming-of-age. The story is told in the beguiling voice of its young protagonist, Omon Ra, whose odd name combines a term for the Soviet special forces with the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology. Ever since he was a boy, Omon has dreamed of flying in space. He enrolls in a training program for cosmonauts, only to learn that his first assignment will also be his last. For although the Soviet space program claims to carry out its missions with unmanned rockets, its scientists haven't yet mastered the necessary technology; so Omon is to drive a supposedly unmanned landing vehicle across the moon's surface, put in place a device that will emit the words of Lenin into space, and then remain on the moon, abandoned, until he dies. The voyage that results combines… Read More

Mad Creek Books, 2019. New Book. Paperback. 232 pp. In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story--one that raises questions about her own guilt? In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites readers to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a… Read More

London: Collins and Harvill press, 1967. Binding: Hardcover, dust jacket Pages: 383 In February 1966 the outstanding Soviet literary critic Andrey Sinyavsky and his friend Yuli Daniel, a well known translator, were sentenced to force labour at a sensational trial in Moscow for having published abroad, under their pen names Abram Tertz and Nicolai Arzhak, works which were alleged to be slanderous and subversive. Access to the courtroom was severely restricted and the proceedings received only scant and one-sided treatment in the Soviet press, but in the months after the trail a full verbatim record of what took place in court began to circulate clandestinely in the Soviet Union. A copy of this record reached the West, by undisclosed channels, and is the central feature of this book which also includes the texts of some remarkable appeals and protests which have been made by Soviet intellectuals in a unprecedented display of solidarity with their two condemned colleagues.' (Quote from inside front… Read More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. New Book. Paperback 208 pages One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent--which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published, it forced both the Soviet Union and the West to confront the Soviet's human rights record, and the novel was… Read More

Berkley Books, 2009. New Book. Paperback 208 pages The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago. In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength. First published in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man's will to prevail over relentless dehumanization. Includes an Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and an Afterword by Eric Bogosian.

Ballantine Books, 2023. New Book. Paperback. 400 pp. 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. "Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill readers' eyes with tears and wonder." - Minneapolis Star Tribune ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya's dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile, Anya's parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured. By the time Anya and Milka are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They pair up with classmates Trifonov and… Read More

Yale University Press, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 336 pp. A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. "A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet's sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country's devastation and its people's passionate determination to survive."--Publishers Weekly, starred review If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe's most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms , The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory. Venturing into combat zones, traversing shifting borders, and forging… Read More

Boston: Twayne Pub, 1988. Hardcover, dust-jacket, 167 pp. Library stamp on the edge, but not on the pages. Otherwise very good. Publisher's annotation: Jane Gary Harris's Osip Mandelstam is the first study to integrate the writer's life and work. It is also the first to offer a synthesis of his oeuvre literary prose and critical essays as well as poetry and, in so doing, trace his full intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development. Harris analyzes each of the major volumes of verse and prose chronologically, providing detailed readings of individual poems and examining the ways in which Mandelstam's prose illuminates his poetry, and vice versa. Harris views the mature poet as a "repository of cultural memory," a perspective that informs and unifies her interpretations of individual works. About the author: Jane Gary Harris is a professor of Russian literature and former chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Pittsburgh. She has traveled widely in… Read More

New York: N+ Books, 2017. New Book. Paperback 320 pp., illustrations Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow's protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia's many voiceless citizens. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; interviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching children at juvenile prisons to draw, all while drawing their stories. Her portraits allow readers to see these people as more than words on paper and to see them as she does: with dignity, compassion, and love. Other Russias is an urgent and poignant work by a major talent.

Mudlark, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 432 pp. Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War - and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime - and Russia itself - at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years' experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as his own family ties to Russia and Ukraine, journalist Owen Matthews takes us through the poisoned historical roots of the conflict, into the Covid bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of paranoia about Western threats, and finally into the inner circle… Read More