In "Sunstroke", Hettlinger has selected the well-known "The Gentleman from San Francisco" and 24 other stories by Bunin, and translated them afresh. The collection includes, among others, "Raven", "Cold Fall", "Muza", "Styopa", "Antigone", "In Paris" and "Late Hour".

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