The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists range from housekeepers and waiters to shabby-genteel aristocrats and intellectualsbut all are united in a haunting displacement from their pasts, and all share a troubling uncertainty about the future.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/17/2001
ISBN: 9780811214735
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.84d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2001 pg. 365
Publishers Weekly 06/18/2001 pg. 61