The Big Green Tent: A Novel
An absorbing novel of dissident life in the Soviet Union, by one of Russia’s most popular writersThe Big Green Tent is the kind of book theterm “Russian novel” was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the...
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An absorbing novel of dissident life in the Soviet Union, by one of Russia’s most popular writersThe Big Green Tent is the kind of book theterm “Russian novel” was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These th
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780374709716 (0374709718)
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
One of the reasons I read fiction is to learn history. Oh, I read historical non-fiction and took too many history classes in college and all that jazz, but sometimes novels make history really in a way that most non-fiction writers can’t. I’ve been reading about Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Te...