Product Description: From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Forced to flee the Soviet Union, Alexander Korbach makes his way around America, searching for a new way to live and coping with the KGB, his ex-wife, and numerous jobs along the way to fame and fortune. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

In 1950s Moscow, young Boris Gradov struggles to cope with his mother's defection; Yolka, a gifted musician, becomes the unwilling mistress of a depraved secret police chief; and Boris, the aging patriarch, becomes the target of a corrupt regime. 15,000 first printing.

Follows the lives and fortunes of members of the Gradov family of Moscow through the turbulent years of 1928 to 1945, through Stalin's rise in the 1930s and the terror of World War II. Reprint.

Stories and novellas, including 'The Destruction of Pompeii,' 'The Steel Bird,' 'Quest for an Island,' 'Super-deluxe,' 'Rendezvous,' and 'Victory,' reveal the everyday life and language of Soviet young people, as well as the struggle between creativity and tyranny

Max Ogorodnikov, a member of a satirical group of top-ranking Soviet photographers, scandalizes the underground resistance when he decides not to defect but to live like a free man in the Soviet Union

The Russian author offers an affectionate chronicle of life in the United States, with discussions of such topics as the European charm of Washington, D.C., and the American immigration bureaucracy

Four stories and two plays explore the ways in which travel relates to contemporary life and represents different 'states' of mind

Recounts the experiences of Aristarkh Apollinarievich Kunitser, a young scientist living in Moscow during the sixties, who faces the prospect of exile

The story of the adventures of Andrei Luchnikov, a playboy and successful newspaper editor, provides a satirical view of life in the Soviet Union