The worldwide English edition of The Gray House came out on 25 April 2017, from AmazonCrossing;[1] it made the shortlist for the 2018 Read Russia Prize.
[2] Excerpts from the novel (in English translation by Andrew Bromfield[3]) were narrated by Stephen Fry in the film Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin.
[4] The book has been also translated into a number of language including (in chronological order): Phoebe Taplin of The Guardian gave a positive review, writing that the book was "enigmatic and fantastical, comic and postmodern, flawed but brilliant".
She compared the book to the works of J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, and Donna Tartt.
[5] Kirkus Reviews called the book "An impressive—and impressively massive—feat of imagination.