Sasha, Stalin and the Gorbachovshchina
T.J. Binyon, 15 September 1988
Children of the Arbat
by Anatoli Rybakov, translated by Harold Shukman.
Hutchinson, 688 pp., £12.95, August 1988,0 09 173742 7 Show More
by Anatoli Rybakov, translated by Harold Shukman.
Hutchinson, 688 pp., £12.95, August 1988,
Pushkin House
by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger.
Weidenfeld, 371 pp., £12.95, May 1988,0 297 79316 0 Show More
by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger.
Weidenfeld, 371 pp., £12.95, May 1988,
The Queue
by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Sally Laird.
Readers International, 198 pp., £9.95, May 1988,9780930523442 Show More
by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Sally Laird.
Readers International, 198 pp., £9.95, May 1988,
Moscow 2042
by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie.
Cape, 424 pp., £11.95, April 1988,0 224 02532 5 Show More
by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie.
Cape, 424 pp., £11.95, April 1988,
The Mushroom-Picker
by Zinovy Zinik, translated by Michael Glenny.
Heinemann, 282 pp., £11.95, January 1988,0 434 89735 3 Show More
by Zinovy Zinik, translated by Michael Glenny.
Heinemann, 282 pp., £11.95, January 1988,
“... to the Sixties, a respected novelistic form. It would be difficult to find more of a contrast than Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House, originally published in Russian in 1978, probably the most interesting work to come out of Soviet literature since the Twenties. It is pleasingly coincidental that its appearance in English should coincide with the first ... ”
