Perhaps the most beautiful and rewarding rediscovery of recent years. Karla Hielscher, Deutschlandfunk "The Village" and "Suchodol" are two of Bunin's most well-known and impressive works, which sparked intense discussions upon their release. "The Village" unfolds through the story of the unequal brothers Krassow and locations such as the general store, fair, suburb, country road, or farmhouse, a panorama of the bleak provincial life in pre-revolutionary Russia. Bunin describes this life in all its facets unflinchingly yet with understanding, almost lovingly. "Suchodol" reconstructs the complicated history of the owner family of the Suchodol estate through the tales of the old maid Natalja, thereby creating the most vivid and dense depiction of the declining Russian aristocratic culture that exists in Russian literature.