Guzel Yakhina, a Russian novelist, published his debut novel Zuleikha in 2015. It tells the story of different characters, including the main protagonist, who struggle to survive in exile in Siberia between 1930 and 1946. In 2015, the book received the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award as well as the Big Book Award. It's been translated into twenty-one other languages.

When it first came out, this book grabbed Russia's current literature landscape by storm and quickly became a best-seller. It is now being adapted into a television series. This book narrates the harrowing account of Zuleikha, a Muslim lady from a tiny Tatar hamlet who was taken to the Gulag during Stalin's reign. The boat conveying the detainees sinks, and only one officer and Zuleikha survive. They must forge a new existence for themselves in the taiga. Despite the deplorable living conditions, Zuleikha manages to find love and a professional position in which she excels. The story is based in part on factual evidence of those who were dispossessed and expelled as a result of Stalin's collectivization.

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The latest work by one of Russia's best living authors is based on her own and her family's lives. The primary character is a lady who discovers her grandfather's letters and diaries, whom she has never met. Surprisingly, she discovers that their lives are inextricably linked.

The story features two plotlines: one concerning her grandpa, who was imprisoned during the Stalinist era, which causes family members to abandon him. The second is a modern-day woman with a tumultuous life and love story. Like Ulitskaya's earlier works, this one is full of intellectual narration, introspection, profound psychology, and investigation of something that ties a person with their roots in many (albeit not always positive) ways.

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The recipient of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize and the author of the multi-award-winning Laurus, a sweeping novel that takes readers on a fascinating trip through one of Russia's most pivotal times. He spent his whole life in Yalta, leaving behind a great legacy of unknown memoirs. A young student in modern-day Russia is determined to discover the truth. Solovyov and Larionov is a groundbreaking and engrossing literary detective story written by one of Russia's most eminent current writers.

This is another tale that bridges the gap between the past and the present. Solovyov, a student, is working on a report about General Larionov of the White Army and his fate during Russia's Revolution and Civil War. The student travels to Crimea, which was a major battleground during the Civil War. A symposium devoted to General Larionov's life is currently happening, and strangely, the fates of the general and student become interwoven. Furthermore, the story has a subtle sarcasm regarding all of the scientific studies and conferences that the author, Eugene Vodolazkin, a medieval specialist and philologist, has firsthand knowledge of.

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Leonardo's Handwriting is a romantic morality story about an uncommon lady. Nature has endowed the heroine, Anna, with the power of foresight, which dictates her fate. The distinctive "left-handed mirror handwriting," which became known in psychology as "Leonardo's handwriting," just adds to the "weirdness" of both Anna's personality and the novel's twists and turns.

Anna's writing is exceedingly uncommon, and what she wrote can only be read by gazing in the mirror - this rare gift is known as "Leonardo's handwriting," after the great Leonardo da Vinci, who was the first genius to be able to do so. Those who don't comprehend the secret of this strange lettering feel dizzy. Furthermore, Anna possesses a peculiar trait: she possesses the power of clairvoyance, which lends her life a magical quality. The reader journeys from small Ukrainian cities to Moscow, as well as all over the world from Frankfurt to Montreal, like in all of Dina Rubina's works.

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In the turmoil of early-1990s Russia, a paraplegic veteran's wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union's fall from him in order to keep him and his pension alive, until it is revealed that the tough old guy has other ideas. The Man Who Couldn't Die by Olga Slavnikova tells the narrative of two women who strive to extend the life and the reasons and meaning of their own lives by building a society that doesn't change, the Soviet Union that never disintegrated. Marina places Brezhnev's photo on the wall after his stroke, alters the Pravda articles read to him, and uses her media connections to piece together complete newscasts of events that never happened.

Meanwhile, her mother, Nina Alexandrovna, is struggling to make sense of the baffling new world outside, especially in light of her husband's uncommunicative nature. While Marina is caught up in an out-of-control local election campaign, Nina finds that her husband is also plotting to murder himself and stop the charade. The Man Who Couldn't Die, masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz, is a darkly playful picture of the lost Soviet past and the craziness of the post-Soviet world that employs Russia's contemporary history as a backdrop for an investigation into deeper metaphysical problems.

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