Its been quite a few years since I last read anything by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I read Crime and Punishment when I was in my early 20s – a perfect age to read the book because it focuses on a young man of similar age, Raskolinkov who decides that murdering his landlady can only be a [...]
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Olga Grushin has created a novel with all the characteristics of a Russian classic. The Concert Ticket could have been written by a modern Chekov or Gogol and yet has none of the clunkiness of a translation for it was written in English. Although Grushin’s story has a basis in real-life events, the author brings [...] |
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