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The Ladies from St. Petersburg
The Ladies from St Petersburg
Author: Nina Berberova
Selected by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of 1998, now available as a ND paperbook. Writing with a resonating clarity, unsentimental yet full of hunmabnn sympathy., Nina Berberova stands as one of the treasures of twentieth-century literature and the continuance of the great Russian tradition.The Ladies from St. Petersbur...  more » contains three novellas which chronologically paint a picture of the dawn of the Russian revolution, the flight from its turmoil, and the plight of an exile in a new and foreign place -- all of which Berberova knew from her own personal experience. In the title story the protagonists are taking a vacation, unaware that their lives are about to be irrevocably changed. In "Zoya Andreyevna," an elegant, privileged woman, in headlong flight, falls ill among unfriendly strangers who resent her wealth and position even though she does not flaunt it. In "The Big City," an emigrant lands in a surreal New York, a place that is not yet, and may never be, his home.
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ISBN-13: 9780811214360
ISBN-10: 0811214362
Publication Date: 5/2000
Pages: 144
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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