The Russian Triptych

About the Book

The first novelette: The Russian Triptych is about Victor, a German collaborator in WWII. After serving his term in the GULAG, he lives in Siberia. He shoots a geologist who reminded him of a boy he had left half-dead at Babi Yar. In prison he kills his cellmate, escapes and flees to Leningrad, where he blackmails another former collaborator. The story has a new continuation set in USA. The second one: A Confession During the Last Week of Life is about a White officer who infiltrates into the Soviet Cheka after 1917 revolution and becomes a high rang KGB-ist influencing the fate of Russia. There are number of other short stories in the book

About the Author

Yevgeny Lubin, a Russian-American writer, playwright and poet, left Soviet Union in 1977 and since lives in New Jersey. Ten books and number of poems, stories, essays and plays have been published in USA, Russia, France, Israel, Germany, and Hungary. Yevgeny Lubin is a President of the Russian Writer’s Club in New York and a member of the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg. This book was highly praised by a Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky: “An extremely impressive collection of short, very disquieting stories.” and prof. Robert Belknap of Columbia University: “I think this is some of the most powerful writing I have seen in any language in recent years.”