Родной Язык/Mother Tongue is a project “about” and “in” the Soviet-era Russian gay argot/defense language
co-author of The Kremlin Letters
But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Porfiry
Willimott and Karmel that contextualises these works in light of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and acknowledges glasnost as a project that belonged to all former Soviet states and republics
in a lyrical new translation by Nicolas Slater
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky kate brown Родной Язык/Mother Tongue is aPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award winning Coralie Bickford Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: