Life is an odd boot. In 2 volumes
39.99 €
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Life is an odd boot. In 2 volumes
39.99 €
Tamara Petkevich's memoirs, along with the works of Varlam Shalamov, Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, Evgenia Ginzburg and many others, occupy a firm place among the works that captured "a single human fusion of slop, goodness, cruelty, atrocities and defenselessness" and forever marked the coordinates of the "camp" theme on the map of Russian literature of the twentieth century. Young, fragile, tender, stunningly beautiful woman in full measure had a chance to drink from the cup of suffering that fell to the share of innocent victims of political repression; she experienced hard labor, and humiliation, and hunger, and cold, which turn prisoners into a hunted animal. At the same time, the camp years became for the author not only a science of survival in inhuman conditions. The fate of Tamara Petkevich is the same as the exciting novel, which combines love, betrayal, jealousy, separation, friendship, meetings with amazing people, the joy of motherhood and the pain of loss - all that defines the exciting fullness of human life in spite of the ugliness of the terrible laws of the camp and the willfulness of its gods and goddesses.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Persona