Search Results: Authors starting with O from Globus Books

New York: Crown, 2020. First Edition. New/New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Pages 768 In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective-the story of one man's bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of "hope and change," and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters,… Read More

The New Review Publishing, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 208 pages, illustrations. Princess Vera Obolensky, known as Vicky, has distinguished herself during World War II as an active resister against the horrors of the Nazi regime and Hitler's military occupation. Нег dedication to the cause of freedom stands out as а shining example of an unwavering moral compass. А co­founder of а major French resistance network, she became an efficient worker at the center of its complex intelligence­gathering operations. Caught in the occupiers' dragnet, she withstood the pressure of exhausting interrogations without betraying any secrets. Neither the prison nor the death sentence could break her spirit; even in the face of а cruel execution, Vicky maintained her dignity and endeavored to uphold the morale of her imprisoned comrades. This non-fictional biography is dedicated to her memory. Ludmila Obolensky-Flam was born in Latvia to Russian emigre parents and came to the US after World War II. Неr… Read More

Москва: АСТ, 2011. Переплёт: Tвёрдый Страниц: 352 Когда-то Стогoff написал первую в новой России книгу о политических радикалах. Она называлась "Революция сейчас". Так уж вышло, что книга появилась в продаже 11 сентября 2001 года - и моментально стала бестселлером. Десять лет спустя специально для этого издания Стогoff полностью переработал текст и включил в книгу новый раздел о новом поколении "неприрожденных убийц" - тех, с кем слова "политическое убийство" ассоциируются уже сейчас.

Москва: АСТ, 2010. Переплёт: Tвёрдый Страниц: 288 С некоторыми историями, помещенными Ильей Стогоff`ым в новом романе "Тринадцать месяцев", поклонники творчества писателя уже встречались на страницах книги "Десять пальцев"; другие же, совершенно новые сюжеты, вряд ли оставят кого-нибудь равнодушными хотя бы потому, что Илья Стогоff не только любит, но еще и умеет замечательно рассказывать различные истории.

FUEL, 2017. New Book. Hardcover. 192 pp. 160x200 mm. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive collection of photographs and text on Soviet-era sanatoriums from Armenia to Uzbekistan. All the photographs are specially commissioned for the book, taken by a team of young photographers specialising in the post-Soviet territories. Originally conceived in the 1920s, sanatoriums afforded workers a place to holiday, courtesy of a state-funded voucher system. At their peak they were visited by millions of citizens across the USSR every year. A combination of medical institution and spa, the era's sanatoriums are among the most innovative buildings of their time. Although aesthetically diverse, Soviet utopian values permeated every aspect: western holidays were perceived as decadent. By contrast, sanatorium breaks were intended to edify and strengthen visitors - health professionals carefully monitored guests throughout their stay, so they could return to work with renewed vigour. Certain… Read More

Boston: M-Graphics, 2014. New book. 88 pp. In wrappers. A selection of poems by Osip Mandelstam translated into English and with a postscript by Ilya Bernstein. Most of the poems are from the 1930s, mostly from the "Voronezh Notebooks" (1935-1937). The collection includes several longer poems: The Slate Ode, The Octaves Cycle, The Verses on the Unknown Soldier, and The Ode to Stalin. The translations were guided by the belief that the most important thing about a poem is neither its meaning nor its sound, but whatever it is in it that makes its readers memorize it. Accordingly, an attempt has been made here to capture that particular aspect of the originals, with the hope of making English-language versions of Mandelstam's poems that at the very least point to that which invites memorization in his work, and which in the best cases may be memory-worthy in their own right. Ilya Bernstein is a poet and translator. His translations of Mandelstam have appeared in Persephone, Circumference, Raritan… Read More

New York Review of Books, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 296 pp. A new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life. The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside Moscow, far enough to have served, under Soviet rule, as a place where former political prisoners and other "undesirables" could legally settle. Lying between the center of power and the provinces, between the modern urban capital and the countryside, Tarusa is the perfect place from which to observe a Russia that, in Maxim Osipov's words, "changes a lot [in the course of a decade], but in two centuries--not at all." The stories and essays in this volume--a follow-up to his debut in English, Rock, Paper, Scissors--tackle major questions of modern life in and beyond Russia with Osipov's trademark blend of daring and subtlety. Deceit, political pressure, ethnic discrimination, the urge to emigrate, and the fear of abandoning one's home, as well… Read More

New York Review of Books, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 112 pp. Slyly funny, inventive, and virtuosic, this new collection from a Russian-American master challenges poetic convention and explores themes of alienhood, translation, and human emotion. In Eugene Ostashevsky's The Feeling Sonnets - his fourth collection of poems - words, idioms, sentences, and poetic conventions are dislodged and defamiliarized in order to convey the experience of living in a land, and a language, apart. The book consists of four cycles of fourteen unrhymed, unmetered sonnets. The first cycle asks about the relationship between interpretation and emotion, whether "we feel the feelings that we call ours." The second cycle, mainly composed of "daughter sonnets," describes bringing up children in a foreign country and a foreign language. The third cycle, called "Die Schreibblockade," German for writer's block, talks about foreign-language processing of inherited historical trauma, in this case the siege of Leningrad from… Read More

FUEL Publishing, 2019. New Book. Hardcover 248 pp. From the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro "For us," said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, "there was something supernatural about the Metro." Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artwork--a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art that combined Byzantine, medieval, baroque and constructivist ideas and infused them with the notion that communism would mean a "communal luxury" for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realization of a Soviet utopia. Following his bestselling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and… Read More