Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Gabe for getting a free copy of Erased by Jim Krusoe.

This week, we are giving away a copy of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. Translators include Nick Allen, Keith Gessen, Anna Gunin, Ellen Litman, and others. The work in this anthology reminds us that Russia’s greatest commodity and its greatest contribution to the world has not been oil and gas and armaments. Rather, it’s been the successive generations of Russian writers capable of examining life in all its emotional and intellectual restlessness, in all its complexity and intensity.

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Tin House Books.  Read more »