Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works
|
Buy Now
Mongolian Etudes - To the Ends of an Empire: A Remarkable Story Told in Letters, Poems and Prose (Paperback)
Loot Price: R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
|
|
Mongolian Etudes - To the Ends of an Empire: A Remarkable Story Told in Letters, Poems and Prose (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
Loot Price R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
A wonderful look at Soviet-era life as witnessed from the edge of
the empire, this book is comprised of letters, poems, and prose
pieces that together create a narrative. Through an entirely
original form, Vladimir Azarov, who trained to be an architect in
Moscow during Stalin's Iron Curtain years, begins with a simple
exploratory exchange of letters between him and a faceless
bureaucrat during his days overseeing the design and construction
of the Soviet Embassy in the isolated republic of Mongolia. What
follows is an unfolding sequence that finds Azarov meeting a
remarkable Mongolian woman and later discovering the memoirs of one
of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova, eventually revealing an
unlikely love story between the Mongolian woman and Akhmatova's
son. This enthralling account serves as both a cultural study and
an exploration of the human condition.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.