The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories (New Directions Classic) |
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| Author:
| Berberova, Nina
Schwartz, Marian |
| Translator:
| Schwartz, Marian |
| Series title: | New Directions Classic Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8112-1473-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2001 |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists range from housekeepers and waiters to shabby-genteel aristocrats and intellectualsbut all are united in a haunting displacement from their pasts, and all share a troubling...
More DescriptionThe greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists range from housekeepers and waiters to shabby-genteel aristocrats and intellectualsbut all are united in a haunting displacement from their pasts, and all share a troubling uncertainty about the future.