Books
automatic translate“It’s all because of you” Asya Lavrinovich, summary
Asya Lavrinovich’s novel "All Because of You" was published in 2023 by Like Book, a member of the Eksmo Group. It’s the story of Masha Raeva, whose summer at her grandmother’s dacha is simultaneously connected to the memory of an old grudge, a new romance, and the return of a man she tried not to think about.
Marc Levy’s "Meet Again" Summary
French author Marc Levy’s novel, Only If It Were True, was published in 2005. It is a direct sequel to his debut novel, Only If It Were True, published in 2000.
A summary of "Meeting on a Village Street" by Sergei Voronin
"Meeting on a Village Street" is a collection by Sergei Voronin, published in 1980 by the Leningrad branch of Sovetsky Pisatel Publishing HouseUnder one cover, it brings together texts from 1976–1978: village stories, novellas, memoirs, and almost parables, all connected by Lake Peipus, provincial Russia, memories of war, labor, family divisions, and old age.
"All Flesh is Grass" by Clifford Simak, summary
The plot centers on the contact between the residents of the provincial American town of Millville and an intelligent plant civilization from a parallel timeline. The science fiction novel was published in 1965.
"The Whole Truth About Us" by Max Fry, summary
The story was written in 2015. The plot centers on an investigation into magical happenings at a provincial fair. This situation is closely intertwined with the mysterious nature of dreams and the characters’ attempts to correct ancient mistakes of the past using time magic.
"World War II: Reboot" by Igor Shumeiko, summary
This book is a historical and journalistic study of the causes and course of World War II, published in 2007. The author refuses to consider the European states that surrendered their economic potential to the Nazis without a fight as innocent victims.
"Yesterday is a teacher with today." The results of the readers’ vote in the Big Book
MOSCOW. The winner of the reading of the Big Book has been named.
A Choice of Gods by Clifford Simak, summary
This book is a panoramic chronicle of the distant future, detailing the division of Earth’s humanity into distinct civilizations following a sudden planetary devastation.
"High Art" by Korney Chukovsky, summary
The book was created based on a 1919 brochure for the publishing house "World Literature" and, after several revisions in 1930, 1936, and 1941, acquired its final form in 1964 and 1966This book is a fundamental work on the theory and practice of literary translation, in which the author defends the need for a creative recreation of the original’s individual style, emotional coloring, and intonation, decisively rejecting mechanical literalism and arbitrary ad hoc writing.
"No Exit" by Dmitry Glukhovsky, summary
This book is a dark dystopian novel, written in 2005 and published in 2007. The author transports the reader to the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Moscow subway after a global nuclear war.
A summary of "Blizzard of Shadows" by Alexey Pekhov
An adventure novel by Russian writer Alexey Pekhov, published in 2003. The central theme of the work is a mortal man’s solitary descent into the multi-level ancient burial grounds of the Bone Palaces to save the kingdom of Valiostr from a dark mage.
Sergei Lukyanenko’s "Gadget," a summary
This book is a collection of short stories, novellas, and journalistic essays, published in 2005. The author has collected under one cover works written for magazines and thematic anthologies, accompanying each text with direct commentary on the history of its creation.
A summary of Theodore Dreiser’s "Gallery of Women"
The two-volume collection of psychological essays and portrait stories, "Gallery of Women," published in 1929, was a natural continuation of the writer’s autobiographical series, begun with "Twelve Men" in 1919.
"Garage" by Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov, summary
Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov’s play, written in 1977, is a satirical work set entirely in a closed room among the exhibits of a zoological museum.
"Midshipmen, Forward!" by Yuri Nagibin, summary
The screenplay "Midshipmen, Forward!", written in 1986–1987 by Yuri Nagibin, Nina Sorotokina, and Svetlana Druzhinina based on Sorotokina’s novel "Three from the Navigation School," is a historical adventure about three young cadets from a Moscow navigation school who, against their will, find themselves drawn into a political game surrounding the archive of Vice Chancellor Alexei Bestuzhev.