The Village
Author: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
A new translation of Nobel Prize–winner Ivan Bunin’s first novel Set during the 1905 Revolution in southwest Russia, this is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of the lives of two peasant brothers, “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human.” With brutal honesty it reveals the pettiness, violence, and ignorance of rural farm life. A….Read More
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