Ludmila Ulitskaya

Autumn 2019

Jacob’s Ladder by Ludmila Ulitskaya

New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019. 546 pages. Jacob’s Ladder is an ambitious family saga that encompasses six generations and alternates between two plotlines. The book describes the...
November 2016

The Kukotsky Enigma by Ludmila Ulitskaya

Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern University Press. 2016. 420 pages. Originally penned in 2001 by Ludmila Ulitskaya—one of Russia’s most acclaimed contemporary writers and public intellectuals—and late...
January 2016

The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya

New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. 592 pages. Ludmila Ulitskaya’s new novel offers an almost ethnographic portrait of Russia’s 1960s generation, who came of age during Khrushchev’s Thaw. The...