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Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
"Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining."-- James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of …
All Art Is Propaganda
Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. As a critic, George Orwell …
A Dead Man's Memoir
A semi-autobiographical novel by the Russian author best known for The Master and the Margarita describes a writer's failure to sell his novel and then his inability to commit …
Imitation Democracy
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal …
ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN
A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they …
A Terrible Country
"Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country."--Time"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive …
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the World Fantasy Award One of New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year One of NPR's 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction The celebrated scary …
Terrible Country
In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia's …
Ein schreckliches Land
A Terrible Country
In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s …