Description
| Product ID: | 9781934824368 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Maidenhair |
| Authors: | Author: Mikhail Shishkin |
| Page Count: | 514 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter - the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise - and tell of the atrocities they''ve suffered, or that they''ve invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter''s own reading: a history of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son ''Nebuchadnezzasaurus,'' ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia''s wars and revolutions. |
| Imprint Name: | Open Letter |
| Publisher Name: | Open Letter |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-11-08 |