In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands o...

Sergei Lebedev is a new name in Russian intellectual prose, which is already very well known in the West. “The Limit of Oblivion” is Lebedev’s first novel, f...

When evil is committed, but the living are silent, the dead begin to speak - as in the beginning of “Hamlet”, when the spirit of the poisoned father appears ...

1991 August. A bronze idol was dumped on Lubyanka, and many people think that a new country is being born here and now. In these euphoric days, an ordinary S...

“One of Russia’s most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern R...

Debutant is an ideal poison, deadly and without a trace. The chemist who created it, Kalitin, worked in a secret Soviet institute, but with the collapse of t...

“You read and reread Lebedev's lyrical, cutting prose with equal amounts of awe and enjoyment. This gorgeously written, unsettling novel—a rare work about...

Russia and Germany. There are probably no two other countries that have such deep and tragic ties. Russian Germans are people in between, no longer at home i...

The new novel by Sergei Lebedev is perceived as a continuation of the previous one (“The Limit of Oblivion”), although they are not connected by common chara...