The Buddha's Return by Gaito Gazdanov Bookshop Optimists point to new opportunities-higher

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Deceived in Irkutsk

Selected and translated by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk

Автору удалось в небольшой по объему книге дать развернутую картину трагедии русской аристократии после крушения империи - фактического уничтожения целого класса в результате советского террора

' - Gerhard Zellinger

The Buddha's Return by Gaito Gazdanov Bookshop Optimists point to new opportunities-higherA millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream like fits, is arrested and accused of murder. Slipping between the menacing dream world of the student's fevered imagination, and the dark back alleys of the Paris underworld, The Buddha's Return is part detective novel, part philosophical thriller, and part love story. In typically crisp, unfussy prose, Gazdanov's delicately balanced