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Books narrated by Michael Heim

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  • Diary, 1901-1969

    by Kornei Chukovsky ...
    Translated by Mr. Michael Heim ...
    A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the center of the Russian literary milieu. It is no ... Read more

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  • Chekhov: The Essential Plays

    The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Michael Heim ...
    Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, ... Read more

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  • The Book of Blam

    by Aleksandar Tisma ...
    Translated by Michael Heim ...
    The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tišma’s “extended kaddish . . . [his] masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur ... Read more

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  • The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars

    edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim

    by Thomas G. Winner ...
    The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular and turned to spoken language, substandard forms, everyday sources such as newspapers and detective ... Read more

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  • Reading Chekhov

    A Critical Journey

    by Janet Malcolm ...
    To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yalta. She writes of Chekhov’s childhood, his relationships, his travels, his ... Read more

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  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel

    Growing Up in Communist Russia

    by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ...
    Translated by Anna Summers ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyThe prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia**Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel—the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles—Ludmilla ... Read more

    PHP610.59

  • The Prague Orgy

    A Novel

    by Philip Roth ...
    “Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Bridge

    A Novel

    by Julie Orringer ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The "stunning" debut novel (Los Angeles Times)from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio—the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic—is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, a tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it.Paris, 1937. ... Read more

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  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.Considered the greatest short story writer, ... Read more

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  • The Accusation

    Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea

    by Bandi ...
    Translated by Deborah Smith ...
    A PEN Translates Award-winning collection of short stories about life in North Korea under Kim Jong-Il, written in secret by a dissident author.The Accusation is a revelatory work of fiction that exposes the truth of the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Jong-Il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation throw light on different aspects of life in this most bizarre ... Read more

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  • Siege 13

    Stories

    by Tamas Dobozy ...
    Stories exploring a world of ordinary people caught between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and heroic.In the fall of 1944, the Red Army encircled Budapest, surrounding tens of thousands of German and Hungarian troops, and nearly a million civilians. The ensuing months witnessed one of the most brutal sieges of World War II, with block-to-block ... Read more

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  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

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