Apricot Jam and Other Stories - Couverture rigide

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857863185 ISBN 13 : 9780857863188

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2011

Synopsis

'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.' Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and after Soviet rule. In 'The New Generation', a professor promotes a student purely out of good will. Years later, the same professor finds himself arrested and, in a striking twist of fate, his student becomes his interrogator. In 'Nastenka', two young women with the same name lead routine, ordered lives - until the Revolution exacts radical change on them both. With an unforgettable cast of displaced family members, military commanders and imprisoned activists, these stories play out the moral dilemmas and ideological conflicts that defined Russia in the twentieth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and his work continues to receive international acclaim. Through his writings, particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. He died on 2 August 2008. These stories have been translated by Kenneth Lanz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857863185
• ISBN 13: 9780857863188
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
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