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I highly recommend also reading the “Inhabited Island” as well as “Hard to be a God” by these authors. These books are brilliant as well.

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I tried "Monday Begins on Saturday" and had a pretty hard time getting through it. But I have to give it another chance - and check out the ones you mentioned.

Monday… is a very Russian book, heavily based on memes and folklore. You will have very hard time understanding it. I can’t recommend you to try it again.

The 2 books I’ve mentioned are very international on the contrary.

BTW, “The kid from hell” is also really good.

I am Russian, read it in the original. But I'm scarred by being forced to read meandering classics from a very young age, so I may just have a more visceral negative reaction to it that I have to get over.

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