Snow in May: Stories - Kseniya Melnik • BookLikes (ISBN:162779008X)

Snow in May: Stories

by: Kseniya Melnik (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781627790086 (162779008X)

Publish date: May 13th 2014

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Pages no: 304

Edition language: English

Category:

Literary Fiction, Short Stories

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11 years ago

http://Kinga.booklikes.com Kinga's Books 4.5 Kseniya Melnik - Snow In May

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‘Snow In May’ was a special book for me. Those stories of a far east Siberian town resonated with me on many levels. There is a common ground, some shared experience of all those who lived in the Soviet Bloc during communism. It’s quite amazing how the themes and tropes would repeat itself thousands...

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Chris Blocker rated it

11 years ago

http://chrisblocker.booklikes.com Chris Blocker 4.0 Snow in May

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The matryoshka doll on the cover is perfect for Kseniya Melnik's Snow in May. Like all short story collections I've had the pleasure to read, the stories are not equally weighted. There are some I love and some I think are only okay. In Snow in May, the best stories are found at the middle, nested b...

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Reflections rated it

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http://Jaylia3.booklikes.com Reflections 4.0 Gem-like collection of linked stories layered like matryoshka dolls

text Gem-like collection of linked stories layered like matryoshka dolls

I’m not always one for short fiction but I was mostly enchanted by the beautiful writing, moving characters, and fascinating almost other-world setting of these linked stories. Magadan is in a frigid far-flung eastern corner of the Soviet Union/Russia, not so far from Alaska, and while it was made n...

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