This is a fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the author's own experience, this novella paints an almost documentary-style picture of life in Leningrad during this period. The story of the publication of the book, written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, is treated in the introduction, which also contains a brief biography of the author, a vocabulary and notes.
| ISBN: | 9781853995101 |
| Publication date: | 26th February 1998 |
| Author: | Lidiia Chukovskaia, Lydia Chukovskaya |
| Publisher: | Bristol Classical Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Russian Texts |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |