Robert Chandler

Robert Chandler has edited and translated numerous Russian titles, including the complete works of Platonov. He is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida.

The Foundation Pit
A new translation, the first to be based on the authoritative Russian text, of Platonov's most political novel, in which the people struggle to build a workers' paradise, but succeed in creating only the immense hole of its foundation. "A Russian Waiting for Godot crossed with Lewis Carroll and Maxim Gorky."—Irish Times

Soul
Andrey Platonov is one of Russia's finest post-revolution novelists, and this definitive and newly translated collection of his works positions him amongst the greatest of twentieth-century writers. On Robert Chandler's translation, The Observer wrote, "Rarely does literature come this close to being music."

Price: $12.76 (20% off)

Life and Fate
An epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia.

Price: $18.36 (20% off)