Hope Against Hope (Paperback, New Ed)

After the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam died in a Stalinist prison camp, his widow Nadezhda survived as a teacher of English in remote provincial towns. In 1956, she was allowed back into Moscow and began work on this poignant memoir of the ordeal she shared with her husband. (Kirkus UK)

In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam wrote a short satirical poem denouncing Stalin and read it to a small circle of friends. The poem proved to be a 16-line death sentence. Mandelstam was arrested by the Cheka, the secret police, interrogated, exiled and eventually re-arrested. He died en route to a labour camp in 1938. His wife Nadezhda was with Mandelstam on both occasions when he was arrested and Hope Against Hope, the first volume of her memoirs, chronicles her last four years with him. In moving detail she describes the efforts she made to secure his release, to rescue his manuscripts from the Cheka and, later, to discover the truth about his death. One of the great literary achievements of the Soviet period, Hope Against Hope is a harrowing account of persecution under Stalin’s terror and a portrait of a great poet struggling against the forces of history.

General

Imprint:	The Harvill Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1999
Authors:	Nadezhda Mandelstam
Dimensions:	220 x 148 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	448
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-86046-635-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86046-635-4
Barcode:	9781860466359

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