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Title: |
The Story of Sonechka |
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| By (author): |
Marina Tsvetaeva Translated by: Inessa Fishbeyn, C. D. C. Reeve |
| ISBN13: |
9798887198057 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Weight: |
.400 Kg. |
| Published: |
Cherry Orchard Books (US) - March 2025 |
| List Price: |
14.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| It is 1918 in Moscow. The communist revolution is in full swing. Food is scarce, living conditions harsh. Two women meet on the stage of an empty theater. One is the now famous twenty-six-year-old poet Maria Tsvetaeva, the other the twenty-four-year-old actress Sonia Holliday (Sonechka). The Story of Sonechka, written almost twenty years later, is a vivid account, at once comic and tragic, of their love for each other. A previously untranslated masterpiece (Dmitry Bikov calls it â one of the five best books in world literatureâ ), it stands as a testament to the artistry with which Tsvetaeva wrote prose; the vicissitudes of her life, love, and work; and the intense dynamics of Moscow culture in the wake of the Revolution. It also constitutes an exceedingly rare and early example of queer prose literature originally written in Russian. |
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