This book is a part of bilingual series "Russian Word without Borders" and includes the poetry collection written in Russian by prominent Russian poet Alexander Kushner translated to English by Gary Light.
This book is a part of bilingual series "Russian Word without Borders" and includes the poetry collection written in Russian by prominent Russian poet...
From her experience as a survivor of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience of life under siege. Though she depicts the harrowing conditions, the reader takes away an impression of the dignity, vitality, and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it makes sense of extreme experience. This classic work of documentary fiction, reminiscent of Primo Levi and Albert Camus, will be the first introduction of a major 20th-century Russian writer to many English-language readers.
From her experience as a survivor of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience...
