Books like A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Seven linked stories of revolutionaries swallowed by the Soviet purges and by the revolution they served, told as if from the archives.
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In the First Circle
Over three days in December 1949, imprisoned scientists in a special prison outside Moscow work on secret projects for Stalin's police while a diplomat makes a dangerous phone call.
Beijing Coma
Dai Wei, a student shot in the head in Tiananmen Square in 1989, lies in a coma for ten years, aware of everything, remembering the protests while China changes around him.
The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn's history of the Soviet prison camp system from 1918 to 1956, built from his own years inside and the testimony of hundreds of former prisoners.
Nostromo
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tomé silver mine becomes the prize in a revolution, and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo is trusted to hide its silver.
Europe Central
Linked stories of Germany and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, of artists, officers and informers, from the composer Shostakovich to the SS officer Kurt Gerstein.
Darkness at Noon
Rubashov, an old Bolshevik who helped build the revolution, is arrested by the regime he served and interrogated in his cell, and the novel follows the logic that leads loyal men to confess to crimes they never committed.
Secondhand Time
Ordinary people across the former Soviet Union talk about the collapse of the USSR and the twenty years that followed.
Demons
A provincial Russian town is thrown into chaos by a small cell of revolutionaries, led by a manipulative young radical and orbiting the magnetic, hollow nobleman Stavrogin.
The Land of Green Plums
In Ceaușescu's Romania, a young woman from the German-speaking minority and three young men from the provinces are drawn together after a girl in her dormitory is found hanged, and come under the eye of the secret police.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Katharina Blum, a quiet housekeeper, spends a carnival night with a young man the police are hunting, and a tabloid newspaper turns her life into a story.
Death and the Dervish
Ahmed Nurudin, sheikh of a dervish lodge in Ottoman Sarajevo, begins to question everything when his brother is arrested and he cannot find out why.
Satantango
In the mud and rain of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm, the last villagers hear that a charismatic man they thought dead is coming back, and he leads them into a new scheme.