Never has the last of the great gentry writers and the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature received a more caring and passionate translation. Sunstroke confirms Bunin's stature as one of the greatest--and most neglected--Russian writers of the twentieth century. Ivan Bunin is undoubtedly the greatest Russian writer whom no one reads.... It is time to recognize that this politically and culturally incorrect avatar of the Russian gentry was truly a major writer. --American Scholar