"Spectacular . . . Khassan Baiev's autobiographical tale of his work as a field surgeon in both Chechen wars . . . provides not only a detailed account of the effects of modern warfare on its victims, but also a story of a Caucasian coming-of-age in the old USSR."—Christian Caryl, The New York Review of Books

A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Commonwealth Prize

"An authority one usually finds only in more seasoned writers."—Meghan O’Rouke, The New York Times Book Review

"Harrowing . . . The Stone Fields is more than a memoir of the latest Balkan bloodletting. It is also an intimate history of the Balkans since the end of World War I. In sections entitled 'Herzegovina 1918-1931,' 'Sarajevo 1933-1945,' and 'Liberation 1945-1959,' Brkic re-creates the battered lives of her father's parents and sisters under the succession of regimes and circumstances that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire with an almost folkloric intensity . . . Brkic establishes character and complexity, including her own, with the authority of an experienced novelist."—Elinor Langer, The Oregonian

"Gathers up all of Brodsky's finest poems in one heftily elegant volume . . . Brodsky charged at the world with full intensity and wrestled his perceptions into lines that fairly vibrate with what they are asked to hold. There is no voice, no vision, remotely like it."—Sven Birkerts, The New York Times Book Review

"This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention: as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin, and suffering . . . [The translators] come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as possible."—Joseph Frank, Princeton University

“Absolutely brimming with ideas, full of unforgettable stories and characters, Natasha's Dance tells a most remarkable story: How a backward country, obsessed with its backwardness, managed in a single century to produce the most passionate, innovative, searching art and literature of any Western society, in the process transforming Western culture as a whole. In the telling, Orlando Figes displays his gift for narrative power, his love of telling detail, and his great compassion for the lunatics and geniuses who fill his pages. Extraordinary.”—Michael Ignatieff

"One comes away from the book stunned by the remarkable energy and willingness to resist that so many demonstrated but haunted by the recognition of how little that resistance availed."—The New Yorker