At the center of the narrative of this sometimes shocking, harsh and painful book is a Woman. The heroine, a parachutist and hot air balloon pilot in her youth, having experienced a personal tragedy, is forced to do something completely different in another country, one might say, through the looking glass: she is a cosmetologist, lives and works in New York.A whole string of strange characters passes before her eyes, because due to the nature of her current profession, the heroine...

In the best traditions of Chekhov! Rubina’s “Maniac Gurevich” is a modern interpretation of “Ward No. 6.” Who would have thought that the author of “The Russian Canary” and “Napoleonic Convoy” would decide to give a tour of a madhouse! However, Dina Ilyinichna does not do this alone; she is accompanied by Semyon Gurevich, a psychiatrist who was born in St. Petersburg and emigrated to Israel.The character is fictional, but has a real prototype. Meet Vladimir Gamerov, a psychiatrist ...

On the morning of April 16, 1983, all newspapers were full of headlines: “Elegant robbery.” A unique collection of pocket watches by Sir David Solomons was stolen from the Museum of Islam in Jerusalem. Including a particularly valuable exhibit - a watch commissioned by Marie Antoinette herself. The investigation has been dragging on for many years. What does the humble son of Warsaw watchmakers have to do with the robbery of the century? huddled in a guardhouse on the territory of the Lepe...

Une œuvre polyphonique, portée par deux femmes, mère et fille, dont l’imprévisible croisée des chemins se déroule sous le soleil omniprésent de Tachkent, ville exotique et cosmopolite, gorgée d’odeurs et de couleurs, personnage à part entière de ce récit bouleversant.Ce livre retrace la vie de Véra, jeune peintre réservée et en mal d’amour. Sa mère, Katia, fraîchement sortie de prison et avec qui elle entretient une relation houleuse, est à l’origine de son sentiment de solitude. La...

“My personal family was wild and diverse. It’s damn diverse in terms of quirks, phobias, moral violations, and rabid claims against each other. It’s not like a bunch of scorpions in a jar, but it’s not like tears of God, oh no. My grandmother said, “you can only talk to each of my relatives if you’ve eaten peas!”“Don’t cross me off the list…” is a collection of family stories that contains already familiar works, as well as new stories and short stories. Dina Rubina writes about fa...

Emigration is an old phenomenon, having reached its peak of poeticization during the First World War and highly romanticized thanks to Wassily Kandinsky, Ivan Bunin and Fyodor Chaliapin.People always leave their homeland for a reason - this is a huge test for character, a certain breakdown and shift in fate, a challenge that a person poses to both himself and the world. The greatest artists of the beginning of the last century and of our time went through emigration, and Dina Rubin...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction a...

]The Leningrad blockade forever changed the life of Katya Shcheglova. From a loving mother, she has turned into a criminal who can identify a pickpocket in a second, but forgets about her daughter.For young Vera, the street became a second home, and good neighbors became her closest people. Despite her difficult fate, the girl grew up to be a talented artist. But even a forced diet, thanks to which the girl could buy new paints, and family problems did not deprive her of kindness a...

From the outside, people seem so funny: everyone is running somewhere, creating problems and solving them, loving and suffering from loneliness, burning from vanity and anxiety, fearing death, but living as if it were forever, dreaming of happiness... And they think that the Messiah will come and resolve all the difficulties, unravel everything that they have done here on Earth.You can read Dina Rubina’s warm and slightly sad novel “Here comes the Messiah!..” online or download it ...

The book “It Only Hurts When I Laugh” was born from numerous interviews that Dina Rubina gave throughout her life.From it you will learn many charming and interesting details about your favorite writer: how she lives, whether she likes Israel, what her childhood was like, where she finds plots for novels and much more. In addition, under the cover of the collection you will find short stories, sketches, funny anecdotes and tales.

The Vozdvyzhensky couple tried to have a child for eight years, but to no avail. And so, when fate gave them the long-awaited baby Philip, the head of the family found out that the baby was not his...In desperation, he first decided to leave home. But his wife’s pleas and her helplessness did not allow him to act so cruelly. Every day the man became more and more attached to the child, forgetting that someone else's blood flowed in him. Only Vozdvizhensky could not forgive his wife...

A childhood friend, who later became an investigator, involuntarily gave the heroine the idea of writing a book. The sweet, creative young man loved to write songs and performed them himself, but his parents insisted on enrolling in law school. The girl visited prisons with a friend, during interrogations, I heard a lot of tales from the life of a detective, which helped me better understand the atmosphere and get into the work. The book was not particularly exciting, but after careful cen...