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The girl from the Metropol Hotel

growing up in communist Russia

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An edition of The girl from the Metropol Hotel (2017)

The girl from the Metropol Hotel

growing up in communist Russia

  • 4 Want to read

"The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the kitchen tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged"--

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
149

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's War / by Anna Summers
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
Family Circumstances : The Vegers
The War
Kuibyshev
Kuibyshev : Survival Strategies
How I Was Rescued
The Durov Theater
Searching for Food
Dolls
Victory Night
The Officers' Club
The Courtiers' Language
The Bolshoi Theater
Down the Ladder
Literary Sleep-Ins
My Performances : Green Sweater
The Portrait
The Story of a Little Sailor
My New Life
The Hotel Metropol
Mumsy
Summer Camp
Chekhov Street : Grandpa Kolya
Trying to Fit In
Children's Home
I Want to Live!
Snowdrop
The Wild Berries
Gorilla
Dying Swan
Sanych
Foundling.

Edition Notes

Original Russian edition: 2006.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.78/4403, B
Library of Congress
PG3485.E724 Z4613 2017, PG3485.E724Z4613

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 149 pages
Number of pages
149

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27227463M
ISBN 10
014312997X
ISBN 13
9780143129974
LCCN
2016031256
OCLC/WorldCat
950444041

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