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Winner of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East
European Languages 2011 Book Prize for Best Scholarly Translation
in English The memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and
indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva’s life and
work, told from the point of view of her daughter. This wrenching
story about the difficulty of living with genius charts Efron’s
relationship with her parents as they navigate art and exile.
Efron’s rapport with her mother, already intense, became strained
under the hardships imposed by early twentieth century Russian
political upheaval. Efron recounts the family’s travels from
Moscow to Germany, to Czechoslovakia, and finally to France, where,
against her mother’s advice, Efron decided to return to Russia.
Nemec Ignashev draws on Efron’s short stories and her mother’s
notebooks to supplement the original memoirs. Haunting and
poignant, No Love without Poetry completes extant historical
records on Tsvetaeva—and showcases Efron as a literary force in
her own right.
The central character in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s celebrated novel The
Kukotsky Enigma is a gynecologist contending with Stalin’s
prohibition of abortions in 1936. But, in the tradition of
Russia’s great family novels, the story encompasses the history
of two families and unfolds in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the
ruins of ancient civilizations on the Black Sea. Their lives raise
profound questions about family heritage and genetics, nurture and
nature, and life and death. In his struggle to maintain his
professional integrity and to keep his work from dividing his
family, Kukotsky confronts the moral complexity of reproductive
science. Winner of the 2001 Russian Booker Prize and the basis for
a blockbuster television miniseries, The Kukotsky Enigma is an
engrossing, searching novel by one of contemporary literature’s
most brilliant writers.
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