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Spring Torrents (Penguin Classics)
Spring Torrents - Penguin Classics
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, D...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780760779095
ISBN-10: 0760779090
Publication Date: 4/24/1980
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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I read this for this month's "Spring" theme in my online book club, The Reading Cove. While I felt it was a very slow build (even though it's a short 176 pages of story), the last 50 pages made it worthwhile for me. The plot picked up and things FINALLY started happening! :-)

Dimitry Sanin's whimsical naïvety caused him to make choices that dramatically altered the trajectory of his life. T + 30 years and the wounds and regrets resurface for healing.

This is a translation, and I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style. Like many classics, ten words are used when five would do. But overall, SPRING TORRENTS was a good look at human lamentations, capriciousness, fragilities...and the suchness of life.


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