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Bye Bye Leningrad
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Author : Ludmila Shtern
language : fr
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Release Date : 2013-03-21
Bye Bye Leningrad written by Ludmila Shtern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with categories.
Bye bye Leningrad pose un regard particulièrement original sur la vie quotidienne dans l'ex-Union soviétique et les Etats-Unis de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. En partie autobiographique, ce livre est à la fois un roman picaresque et d'apprentissage. Son héroïne, Tatyana Dargis, a grandi en URSS. Après une adolescence durant laquelle ses malheurs en amour n'ont d'égal que ses déboires intellectuels et administratifs avec le KG B, elle émigre aux Etats-Unis où de nouvelles absurdités - capitalistes, cette fois - lui donnent un aperçu cinglant de la vie en Occident. Avec un sens aigu des sous-entendus et un art de la satire qui se prête merveilleusement à la description des mille contradictions propres au déracinement, Ludmila Shtern brosse un tableau profond quoique hilarant des deux grandes puissances mondiales à la fin de la guerre froide.
Goodbye Leningrad Ein Memoir
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Author : Elena Gorokhova
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Goodbye Leningrad Ein Memoir written by Elena Gorokhova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Girls categories.
Elena Gorokhova grows up in 1960's Leningrad where she discovers that beauty and passion can be found in unexpected places in Soviet Russia.
Bye Bye Leningrad
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Author : Ludmila Shtern
language : fr
Publisher: Éditions Intervalles
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Bye Bye Leningrad written by Ludmila Shtern and has been published by Éditions Intervalles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Une fiction entre les Etats-Unis et l'ex-URSS Bye bye Leningrad pose un regard particulièrement original sur la vie quotidienne dans l’ex-Union soviétique et les Etats-Unis de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. En partie autobiographique, ce livre est à la fois un roman picaresque et d’apprentissage. Son héroïne, Tatyana Dargis, a grandi en URSS. Après une adolescence durant laquelle ses malheurs en amour n’ont d’égal que ses déboires intellectuels et administratifs avec le KGB, elle émigre aux Etats-Unis où de nouvelles absurdités (capitalistes, cette fois) lui donnent un aperçu cinglant de la vie en Occident. Avec un sens aigu des sous-entendus et un art de la satire qui se prête merveilleusement à la description des mille contradictions propres au déracinement, Ludmila Shtern brosse un tableau profond quoique hilarant des deux grandes puissances mondiales à la fin de la guerre froide. Nourri d'influences autobiographiques, ce roman décrit les conflits politiques entre les deux géants de la Guerre froide CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE - "Humour, profondeur sociale, ironie, philanthropie : ces traits distinctifs révèlent une auteure attachante dont les singulières péripéties se lisent d’une traite." (Livres Critique) - "Son originalité et son principal attrait, c’est le ton, toujours drôle, souvent grinçant, avec lequel est restituée cette tranche de vie." (Régis Sully, BSC News magazine) - "Ludmila Schtern nous propose un panorama non dénué d’ironie sur ses deux patries : l’Union Soviétique de sa naissance et les États-Unis, son pays d’adoption. Elle nous dévoile l’envers des livres d’histoire en mettant en lumière le quotidien des petites gens de ces deux pays, leurs travers et leurs us et coutumes." (La Plume ou la vie) - "Ludmilla Shtern raconte avec une rare pertinence ses déboires avec la bureaucratie russe, déboires sur des sujets mineurs mais qui peuvent vous valoir tout votre avenir. On rit même et pourtant, c’est dramatique. La famille finit par réussir à rejoindre l’Amérique, mais la réalité n’est pas aussi douce que le rêve, l’administration n’y est pas non plus en peine de vilenies. Une joyeuse satire !" (GB, BB Le Mag Urbain/Dijon) A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Ludmila Shtern a quitté l’Union soviétique pour émigrer aux Etats-Unis en 1976. Née à Leningrad, elle vit désormais à Boston. EXTRAIT À compter du jour où nous déposâmes nos papiers pour demander l’autorisation de quitter le pays, le temps s’arrêta. Si l’on s’en tient au calendrier, il s’écoulait pourtant à toute allure. Six ou sept mois avaient dû passer. Mais dans mon souvenir, ils se fondaient en un seul et même jour accablant, gorgé de la crainte qu’on nous accorde l’autorisation de quitter le pays et de l’horreur qu’on nous la refuse. La famille n’était plus qu’un vaste champ de ruines. Mon mari Tolia restait prostré dans son lit avec quarante de fièvre mais sans diagnostic. Maman, d’ordinaire si impeccable, si fière et si élégante, restait assise sur le divan en robe de chambre, les cheveux en désordre, à se balancer comme un vieux juif en prière, répétant avec mélancolie et monotonie : « Non, je n’irai pas, non, non, je n’irai pas. Pourquoi le devrais-je ? Qui me chasse ? C’est ici qu’est toute ma vie... Du jour au lendemain, d’un coup, comme ça... Je ne bougerai pas de là, nulle part, jamais... » Comme en écho à ce faible bredouillement, en moi se soulevait un vague trouble où se mêlaient rage, tendresse, repentir et culpabilité.
Defending Leningrad
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Author : Kazimiera Janina Cottam
language : en
Publisher: Nepean, ON : New Military Pub.
Release Date : 1998
Defending Leningrad written by Kazimiera Janina Cottam and has been published by Nepean, ON : New Military Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Stories detailing the activities of Russian women soldiers
How It Was
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Author : V. A. Kharkova
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-09
How It Was written by V. A. Kharkova and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Vera Kharkova, born in 1922, witnessed and took part in the entire lifespan of the Soviet Union. In the early 2000s, upon her retirement, she began writing down her memories about her life. She wrote about things "as they remained in her memory, in her perception." This book describes the war period starting with the declaration of war in June 1941 and ending with her husband's homecoming in the spring of 1946. It includes the most important event in her life meeting with her future husband in 1943, who became the love of her life. The text consists of two parallel narratives: a description of the author's life on the home front, and the life of her husband on the front during the same time period. The account of her husband's life is based on his letters from the front. Although the memoirs are of a private nature, they vividly depict what the war was like for those who lived through it. Written sincerely and openly, these records make for captivating reading. When the war was over and her husband returned from the front, they moved to Leningrad, where they lived happily until his death in 1973. In addition to Zhorik, about whom she writes in this book, they had two daughters, Vera and Olga. Now the author lives in St. Petersburg. She has six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The Russia House
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Author : John le Carré
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-05-26
The Russia House written by John le Carré and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries ... In his first post-glasnost spy novel, le Carré captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them. Contains a foreword and afterword by the author.
Autumn In Yalta
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Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-03
Autumn In Yalta written by David Shrayer-Petrov and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-03 with Fiction categories.
The powerful voice of David Shrayer-Petrov’s immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, Autumn in Yalta brings together the achievements of the great Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jewish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Shrayer-Petrov’s fiction examines the forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious, and social lenses. Set in Stalinist Russia, the novel Strange Danya Rayev revolves around the wartime experiences of a Jewish Russian boy evacuated from his besieged native Leningrad to a remote village in the Ural Mountains. In the title story Autumn in Yalta, the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Samoylovich, is sent to a Siberian prison camp because of his ill-fated love for Polechka, a tuberculosis patient. In The Love of Akira Watanabe once again unrequited love is the focus of the central character, a displaced Japanese professor at a New England university. A fishing expedition and an old Jewish recipe make for a surprise ending in Carp for the Gefilte Fish, a tale of a childless couple from Belarus and their American employers. In the tradition of other physician-writers, such as Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, Shrayer-Petrov’s prose is marked by analytical exactitude and passionate humanism. Love and memory, dual identity, and the experience of exile are the chief components.
The Best Intentions In The World
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Author : Gabriel Malika
language : en
Publisher: Éditions Intervalles
Release Date : 2017-12-05
The Best Intentions In The World written by Gabriel Malika and has been published by Éditions Intervalles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Fiction categories.
Immediate embarkation for the United Arab Emirates Gabriel is a young and ambitious designer. After reaping the benefits of successful business deals in Saudi Arabia, he moves to Dubai to kick start a career in photography. There he befriends the patriarch of the Al Firas family, the owner of most shoppings malls in town and whose saga mirrors the exponential growth of the Arabian metropolis. One day, Khalid Al Firas decides to organise a lottery which rewards the winners with a luxury holiday cruise on the Strait of Hormuz. Six people, from France, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the US, Lebanon and Iran, get the golden ticket. Aboard the “Safineth”, the passengers are informed that a tsunami coming from the Iranian coast is fast heading their way. While the ship weathers the storm, the lucky winners can only witness the destruction of Dubai from the deck. The artificial ‘The World’ island and the Atlantis hotel are soon submerged by the huge wave. The whole world watch flabbergasted and wonder how this natural disaster could ever have occurred. Convinced that such a catastrophe is not a coincidence, Al Firas asks Gabriel to enquire about the passengers’ lives. So, Christophe, Samana, Toni, Sharon, Saeed and Gamzeh are going to reveal their family stories and the reasons which have driven them to Dubai. The account of their existence draws an impressive mosaic of the Middle East plunging the reader in the traditions of this part of the world. Their moving testimonies feature Dubai as a city where feelings and human relations are put to the test and where love inevitably crashes onto its immaculate shores. The novel is a hyperbole that depicts the grandness and decadence of a city built on sand that tries ever so hard to portray a different image of the Arabian world at the expense of losing its soul, identity and integrity. A brilliant psychological novel, between censorship and realism EXTRACT “This is up to me.” “If you say so,” answered cousin Remy, as he dropped me off in front of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, Terminal C. I was not entirely sure what I was signing up for. A terrorist group had rampaged through the Saudi capital a short while ago. Westerners no longer felt safe. The consulates were frantic and garlands of barbed wires had bloomed around every compound. What better time for me to move to Jeddah, a city near the Red Sea, a crucial milestone for traveling pilgrims on their way to Mecca. There, they said, laid Eve, Hawwa. My family had tried to talk me out of it, but it was too late. All the contracts were signed, my suitcases packed and ready to go. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gabriel Malika has been living in the Middle East for more than a decade. From Beirut through Jeddah to Karachi, he has absorbed the beauty and complexity of this tumultuous region. After the success of With the Best Intentions in the World, published in 2011 by editions Intervalles, his second novel, Qatarina was published in 2014.
Such Is Life
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Author : Willy W. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04-17
Such Is Life written by Willy W. Schneider and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the story of a life full of "derailments." The author might have grown up under secure circumstances, yet, even his young years were full of confusion, caused by the divorce of his parents in his very young years and full of apprehension because of he dictatorial manner with which his grandmother ruled her flock. He has to learn the true facts of life very early when he chose a profession, which, he innocently thought, would fulfill his dreams about his professional life. Reality, however, turned into twelve to fourteen hour workdays on a highly efficiently run large farm. His years of apprenticeship has hardly come to an end, when he was drafted into the army and after boot camp, he was promptly shipped to Russia, where he experienced more hardship, brutality, death and misery than most of us experience during a lifetime. Even though he was wounded several times, he survived that war in one piece, only to find upon his arrival in his hometown the Russians again as occupation troops, which led to new and sometimes dangerous problems, which convinced him to leave the "Workers" Paradise and flee to the "Golden West" in Germany. Not all was gold that glittered and the long harbored idea of emigrating eventually became reality, not without considerable obstacles. The initial years in the new homeland were a cultural shock and full of surprises. Some quite funny, others not. After nearly five years of doing what he had never thought he would be doing, he finally found his niche in the financial service business, from which he retired in 1999 and is now enjoying his "golden years." He has never regretted his decision to emigrate.
The War Within
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Author : Alexis Peri
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
The War Within written by Alexis Peri and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with History categories.
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Winner of the AATSEEL Book Prize Winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize Honorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize “Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri’s account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad endured.” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Fascinating and perceptive.” —Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books “Powerful and illuminating...A fascinating, insightful, and nuanced work.” —Anna Reid, Times Literary Supplement “A sensitive, at times almost poetic examination.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives. It was one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured it. Drawing on unpublished diaries written by men and women from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic story of how young and old struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them. When the blockade was lifted in 1944, Kremlin officials censored publications describing the ordeal and arrested many of Leningrad’s wartime leaders. Some were executed. Diaries—now dangerous to their authors—were concealed in homes, shelved in archives, and forgotten. The War Within recovers these lost accounts, shedding light on one of World War II’s darkest episodes while paying tribute the resilience of the human spirit.