[Max Cairnduff]

I can't help with contemporary Russian fiction, but one I am fond of that's not yet mentioned in the thread is A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, an archetypal superfluous man novel and an unusual (for us, not so much for the Russian's of Lermontov's day) mix of the literary and the adventurous.

I liked it enough to name my blog, Pechorin's Journal, after it. It's well worth a read particularly if you have any interest in that particular strand of Russian literature.

On the contemporary stuff, I had the impression that fantasy and magical realism (for want of a better term) were big over there right now, naturalist fiction not so much. My impression, which may be wrong, is that wacky fantasy is right now where their market is mostly at.