About Glas New Russian Writing
A showcase for the literary landmarks of the past decade, Glas is the most comprehensive source of contemporary Russian literature in translation — a must for libraries, students of world literature, and all those who love good writing.
Glas embraces practically all the major names and trends in current Russian literature. Most of the authors appeared in English for the first time in Glas, and some of them were later picked up by publishers in other countries.
Based in Moscow, Glas is a joint venture comprising UK and US translators and Russian editors and critics, who believe that the great Russian literary tradition lives on.
“Glas has become almost disturbingly indispensable. The texts and voices out of Russia come through with formidable insistence. More now than ever before, precisely because hopes on their native ground are again precarious.” – George Steiner
“I was delighted to read Glas. It is clear that there is a great deal of literary talent in Russia today, and the excellent selection which my copy of Glas contains promises well for its future.” – Sir Isaiah Berlin
“Glas is a first-rate series, well planned and very well translated. Anyone interested in Russia and good writing should seek it out.” – The Observer
“Glas gives us a sense of Russian literature in motion. If it cannot perhaps mercifully convey fully what it is like to live in Russia at present, Glas at least gives us a taste of what it is to be a reader there." – Times Literary Supplement
“Thanks to Glas many of the new Russian writers are now available to the Western reader.” – The New Yorker
“Russia remains a country of distinguished writers, and GLAS series, presenting Russian writing in English translation, provides a welcome overview of the current state of Russian literary affairs.” – Montreal Gazette
Featured Titles
| Childhood by Natasha Perova "To some extent the book is an attempt to come to grips with the chaos of the present through an examination of the formative past..." £8.99 | Dim and Distant Days by Larissa Miller Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow, with reminiscences of her mother, a major journalist under Stalin, and of her father killed in World War II. £8.99 | ||
| History in Reverse: Revolutions of 1917-20 and 1980s by Natasha Perova "The heroes' smug self-righteousness is more and more tightly circumscribed until it collapses in a gruesome ending worthy of Nabokov... Glas is worth whatever it costs for this novel alone." — Irish Times £8.99 |  | MINUS: A novel by Roman Senchin “… Minus depicts post-Soviet Siberians as people with dormant inner power languishing in the cage of their circumstances.” — Die Welt £8.99 | |
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