Books like The Tsar of Love and Techno
Linked stories across eighty years of Russian history, beginning with a 1930s Leningrad censor who erases purged enemies from paintings and photographs, and following a single painted landscape into post-Soviet Chechnya.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in a luxury hotel for the rest of his life and discovers that a full existence can unfold within four walls.
Mercury Pictures Presents
Maria Lagana, who fled Mussolini's Italy as a girl, works her way up at a low-budget Hollywood studio during the Second World War, where everyone is hiding something and the government wants propaganda.
Heart of a Dog
A stray dog in 1920s Moscow is surgically transformed into a human, and the resulting creature becomes a savage satire of the New Soviet Man.
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.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
In a Chechen village in 2004, a failed doctor rescues an eight-year-old girl whose father has been taken by Russian soldiers and brings her to a bombed-out hospital where the one remaining surgeon has no time for either of them.
Bluebeard
An ageing abstract expressionist tells the story of his life and his art, and the painting he won't let anyone see conceals the trauma he survived.
City of Night Birds
Natalia Leonova, a star of the Mariinsky Ballet, comes back to St Petersburg after an injury and a breakdown to dance Giselle again, and the story of how she got there unfolds alongside her return.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
From reveille to lights out, one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a peasant soldier serving ten years in a Soviet labour camp in the Kazakh steppe.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
A Country Doctor's Notebook
Stories drawn from Bulgakov's year as a newly qualified doctor at a remote country hospital, where he faces amputations, difficult births and blizzards with only his textbooks, and finds the diary of a colleague who fell into morphine addiction.
Life and Fate
A Soviet physicist and his extended family move through Stalingrad, a German camp, the Lubyanka, and the Soviet state in a book Grossman wrote knowing it would be suppressed.
Mother Night
An American spy in World War II is tasked with broadcasting Nazi propaganda and discovers he may have become the monster he was pretending to be.