Note to self for 2017....... you don't have to finish a book that you are not connecting with. You have purchased it, you have tried it, you don't have to finish it. Occasionally I struggle though books I am not enjoying in the hope that it will turn around and this happens to be one of those that...
This is just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful in places. This is Teffi's account of her journey out of Revolutionary Russia. It has beauty, humor, and sorrow.Thank NYRB Book Club, thank you.(May 2016 selection)
Most of the leading lights of Russian literature—especially before the Russian Revolution—that most people know are men. Almost two years ago, I was delighted to learn that the work of one Russian woman was being translated and published in English. I had never heard of Teffi and was astonished to f...
bookshelves: spring-2015, radio-4, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, slavic, translation, under-50-ratings Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from April 11 to 18, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ny7p1Description: Teffi's genius with the short fo...
Introduction--Everything FlowsNotesChronologyA Note on Collectivisation and the Terror FaminePeople, Places and OrganisationsBiographical NoteFurther ReadingAcknowledgementsAn Afterword by Yekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
This was one amazing historical book about the Pugachev's Rebellion against Catherine the Great. It shows the historical side but also the love between two people caught in the middle - Pyotr and Masha. I really enjoyed reading this one.
This is not a novel but as another reviewer has quite rightly pointed out, a verdict. Nor is it complete, Vasily Grossman began it in 1955 and was still revising it during his last days in the hospital in September 1964. Grossman was also one of the first witnesses of the consequences of the Holocau...
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