Each chapter is a
bonne bouche, possessing its own particular flavour, from sweet to acrid-bitter. Hobson's characters are often wonderfully quixotic and so is the spirit she finds everywhere at this crux in Russia's history. She drinks with derelicts, hangs out with gypsies, and watches investigators go about the grim business of exhuming purge victims, and giving them the Christian burial they have been denied for seventy years. Her style is deft: she manages to render the scenes through which she passes with needle-sharp precision.'
Financial Times
This witty and yet deeply moving, acutely observed tale of Charlotte Hobson's year in Russia takes us to the heart of a country many of us continue to be fascinated by and struggle to understand. Or as the
TLS put it: 'Hobson writes with such beguiling directness that it is hard not to feel intimate with her and her characters. Few books evoke so much of Russian life, with so little effort.
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1: Arrival
- 2: Hostel No. 4
- 3: Memorial Wood
- 4: Bourgeois Medicine
- 5: The Triangle Player
- 6: Russian Lessons
- 7: The Truth Game
- 8: Dmitri Donskoy and the Borders of Russia
- 9: Free Day
- 10: New Year, New Happiness
- 11: The House of the Deaf and Dumb
- 12: Little Pavlik
- 13: Inflation Fever
- 14: The Commission Shop
- 15: International Women’s Day
- 16: The Thaw
- 17: Iron Boots
- 18: Peter Truth
- 19: Leaving
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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