Maidenhair
Author(s): Mikhail Shishkin
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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Open Letter
- : Open Letter
- : 0.602
- : 11 January 2013
- : 216mm X 140mm X 26mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mikhail Shishkin
- : Paperback
- : 891.735
- : 514
- : FA