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The Women's Decameron
The Women's Decameron
Author: Julia Voznesenskaya
ISBN-13: 9780805006018
ISBN-10: 080500601X
Pages: 302
Edition: 1st Owl Book ed
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"From Publishers Weekly
Ten women in a Leningrad maternity ward regale each other for 10 days with tales and anecdotes ranging from the pungent to the raunchy, with a few tear-jerkers sprinkled between. Zina the tramp, Olga the shipyard worker, and Larissa the doctor of biology compete amicably with Albina the Aeroflot hostess, a wry expert on sexual mores whose motto is to dress on credit and undress for cash, and party functionary Valentina, who unbends considerably when she tells how she tangled a would-be rapist in her mitten-strings. The topics cover the ruses and revenges, together with acts of generosity, that loveand lustinspire. In her first novel, literate dissident Voznesenskaya candidly unfolds a brillant spectrum of Soviet daily life in labor camps (where she spent time), country dachas, and urban dormitories. Readers will find her accounts eye-opening while succumbing to their salty, jaundiced charm."

The stories the women share during their quarantine are at times funny, heart-wrenching and most of all, thought provoking.


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