When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovi
Translated by Hugh Aplin Published by Alma Classics One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues – translated here for the first t
Translated by Hugh Aplin Published by Alma Classics Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the “mother” of the title – and her son Pavel,
