YEVGENY ZAMYATIN was a naval engineer and author. He wrote short stories, plays, and essays. His masterpiece, We, was written in 1920-21 and was banned in Russia on the grounds of being ideologically undesirable. It was quickly translated and published in many languages around the world, finally being published in Russia in 1988. BELA SHAYEVICH is a Soviet-American writer, translator, and illustrator. She translated Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich's Second-hand Time.
The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerfu...[SEE MORE]