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Madonny Leningradu

by: Debra Dean (author)

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Subtelna, napisana pięknym językiem powieść o ponadczasowej miłości, pamięci i sile sztuki, która pozwala przetrwać najtrudniejsze chwile. Rosyjska emigrantka, Maria Buriakov, spędza jesień życia w Seattle. W walce z chorobą Alzheimera, myli przygotowania do ślubu wnuczki ze wspomnieniami młodości z czasów oblężenia Leningradu. Ukrywając się w piwnicy, Maria odtwarzała w wyobraźni sławne obrazy, które oglądała, pracując w muzeum w Ermitażu... Poetycka, nastrojowa, owiana melancholią historia wielkich uczuć, obaw i wzruszeń.

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Format: papier

ISBN: 9788324702954

Publish date: 2008 (data przybliżona)

Pages no: 240

Edition language: Polski

Category:

Novels, History, Cultural, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adult, Art, War, Russia, World War II, Art History

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The Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean Hardcover, 228 pages Published 2006 by William Morrow & Company ISBN: 0060825308 (ISBN13: 9780060825300) Debra Dean has written a beautiful, poignant novel that combines a historical viewpoint of a civilian life in Russia during World War II an...

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Alzheimer's is a devastating illness. Newer memories disappear, leaving only older and older memories. Marina Buriakova is slipping deeper into its grip as her husband takes her to their granddaughter's wedding. Memories that Marina has suppressed for sixty or more years are coming closer to the sur...

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Out of the Blue rated it

12 years ago

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The novel is set half in 1941, at the time of the Nazi siege aroung Leningrad, and half in the present. In 1941, Marina was ayoung tourist guide working for the Ermitage museum, accompanying the tourists from room to room. Her love for art and beauty is second only for her love for Dimitrij, a young...

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Michelle CH rated it

13 years ago

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This was a half-book. A story of an elderly woman who is suffering from Alzheimer's with her husband and children coping the best that they can. I appreciate the author's idea of flashbacks and retained memories, but I felt like I was never in the loop with what was happening. For some of the book I...

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Thewanderingjew rated it

15 years ago

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The main character is a Russian woman in her 80’s, now living in America. She is suffering with Alzheimer”s disease and the consequent loss of her “self”. As Marina’s mind moves back and forth from the present to the ever more present past, due to the progressive nature of the disease, we learn abou...

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