Ivan Bunin...is one of the finest story writers of the twentieth century, a master of tone and experiment.

Gary Saul Morson

[Bunin is] one of the great literary masters of the twentieth century...[his is a] powerful and pellucid art.

Cynthia Ozick, author of The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

Russian exile Bunin (1870-1953), who won the Nobel Prize in 1933, becomes stunningly accessible in this beautiful new translation.

Publishers Weekly

The translation is graceful and essentially accurate.

Richard Lourie, The Wall Street Journal

Emotional intensity in remembrance that recalls Proust....Stunningly accessible...beautiful new translation.

Publishers Weekly

Fluid new translations...this piercingly lyrical collection renders fully the passion of the human heart and the power of memories.

LELIA RUCKENSTEIN, The Review of Higher Education