Evening at Claire's. Night Roads

Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) — the greatest writer of the Russian émigré community, whose contemporaries placed him alongside Vladimir Nabokov and compared him to Marcel Proust and Ivan Bunin, admiring the musicality of his prose, its poetic nature and the power of his language. After the revolution, at just under sixteen years old, Gazdanov joined the White movement and was subsequently forced to leave Russia forever, sharing the fate of many Russian emigrants. He spent most of his life in Paris and, even as a renowned writer, continued to work as a night taxi driver for many years; in 1953, he became a correspondent and later editor of «Radio Liberty». This edition includes the most significant works of Gaito Gazdanov: «Evening at Claire's», the first novel that brought the author fame and opened the doors to leading literary magazines, as well as the novels «Night Roads», «The Ghost of Alexander Wolfe», «The Return of Buddha», and selected stories written throughout different years of his life.