The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
The prizewinning memoir of one of the world s great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor...
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The prizewinning memoir of one of the world s great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals wh
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780143129974 (014312997X)
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Well, this does explain some of those wonderful stories that Petrushevskaya writes.Petrushevskaya's memoir is about her early years - her family's fall from grace, her birth, her life during war time. She lived as a half feral child for several years. But like in her stories, her use of language is ...
This is an account of Ludmilla Petrushevaskaya's personal life and experiences growing up in Stalin's Communist Russia. A slim volume of only 149 pages that is unsentimental, vivid and interesting and you cant but help admiring Ludmilla Petrushevaskaya and her feisty personality.Born in 1938 in Mo...
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