Мозаика моей жизни –  Mosaic of my Life:  details on purchase

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My Community is global and in the past couple of hours I have received emailed queries from would-be buyers of Larisa’s novel “Mosaic of my Life” in English or in Russian.  I write now to provide some guidance.

First, when I provided the book page to the novel in English on the Amazon website in the USA, I should have added an explanation to those of you unfamiliar with the Amazon global sales. They have country websites in many key markets around the globe which serve their neighborhood.  So if you are in Canada and wish to buy the e-book (Kindle)or print versions of this book, you have to go to the amazon.ca website since the U.S. website may refuse to sell you the book. In Europe, there are Amazon websites in France, Germany, the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Poland, etc

Second, I erred when I said that the Russian language edition of the book is available only as an ebook.  Wrong: it is available only as a paperback.  And in 2020 there were two publishers of the Russian language edition as paperback.  One was the U.S. based publisher Author House, which is a Print on Demand firm, meaning that a copy is printed for each new incoming order.  The Author House edition is distributed by the global consortia who serve bookstores as well as online sellers, meaning that if you object to purchasing from Amazon and getting immediate delivery, you can place an order for the book, whether in Russian or in English, at the book store nearest you by making reference to Author House, 2020 and the ISBN which is on the Amazon.com pages But delivery via your bookstore may take some weeks.

Third, the Russian edition was also published separately in Russia by a St Petersburg arts publisher called Liki Rossii. This was done in the traditional manner, with a fixed number of copies printed at once.  For those of you in Russia, the book can be ordered from Ozon or by writing directly to the publisher in Petersburg.

Here is the link to the U.S. publisher to purchase the Russian edition directly from them:

https://www.authorhouse.com/en/search?query=%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B9+%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B8

Here is the link to the Amazon Germany website to order the Russian version for delivery within Europe.

Hopefully, this covers all questions.   Best of luck to you and happy reading!

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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