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Everything Flows By Vasily Grossman Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Anna Aslanyan Introduction by Robert Chandler The final novel from the author of Life and Fate centers a former political prisoner adjusting to freedom after decades spent in a Soviet camps. It is a story of love, survival, honor, and an indictment of the totalitarian state. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

Memories of the Future By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull The first English-language collection of stories from a Soviet writer whose mind-bending tales draw comparisons to the works of Poe, Borges, Kafka, and Capek. "Here a natural storyteller, striking intellect, and deeply creative soul are found all in one—a rare combination."—The Complete Review Price: $11.96 (25% off)

The Foundation Pit By Andrey Platonov Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson 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 Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Queue By Vladimir Sorokin Translated from the Russian by Sally Laird An average day in the Soviet Union, hundreds of people are lined up for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Sorokin's most approachable novel is told in snatches of dialogue that are in turn poignant and uproarious. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Soul By Andrey Platonov Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson and Eric Naiman Introduction by Robert Chandler Afterword by John Berger 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: $11.96 (25% off)

The Slynx By Tatyana Tolstaya Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell In Tolstaya's vaudevillian-dystopian novel, set 200 years after an apocalyptic disaster destroys Russia, a lowly scribe is elevated to a life of privilege and becomes the bibliophile from hell. "A densely woven, thought-provoking fantasy"—Kirkus Reviews Price: $11.21 (25% off)

White Walls By Tatyana Tolstaya Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell and Antonina W. Bouis This first comprehensive collection of stories from a writer whom Edna O'Brien dubbed "an enchantress" shows off Tolstaya's unparalleled ability to reflect the heartbreak and humor of everyday life in contemporary Russia. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

Ice By Vladimir Sorokin Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell Ice is at once a work of fantasy, prophecy, parody, and wild paranoia. It is the finest work to date of a writer of proven genius and growing international renown, whose work is here to stay. Price: $17.96 (25% off)

The Stray Dog Cabaret Translated by Paul Schmidt Introduction by Catherine Ciepiela Afterword by Honor Moore Eight world-class twentieth-century Russian poets brought to new life in Schmidt's scintillating translations. A New York Review Books Original. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Life and Fate By Vasily Grossman Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Robert Chandler 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: $17.21 (25% off)

Moura By Nina Berberova Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz Richard D. Sylvester In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction. Price: $18.71 (25% off)

Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam By Osip Mandelstam Translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown W.S. Merwin Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Envy By Yuri Olesha Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz Introduction by Ken Kalfus Envy is an anarchic comedy of co-dependency and complete misunderstanding. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

The Golovlyov Family By Shchedrin Translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington Introduction by James Wood This is a tragic story, deeply moving, and by means of the figures that pass through it, relentlessly depicts the Russia that so inevitably prepared the Revolution. The book is a classic in its own country, and it is obvious why. —The Spectator Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Virgin Soil By Ivan Turgenev Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett Introduction by Charlotte Hobson This rich and complex book is at once a love story, a devastating, and bitterly funny social satire, and, perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

Peasants and Other Stories By Anton Chekhov Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett Introduction by Edmund Wilson "No one understood as clearly and finely as Anton Chekhov the tragedy of life's trivialities, no one before him showed men with such merciless truth the terrible and shameful picture of their life in the dim chaos of bourgeois everyday existence." —Maxim Gorky Price: $14.96 (25% off)