The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels
By Nina BerberovaThe 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.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 307 pages
- English
- 0679402810
- 9780679402817
About Nina Berberova
nina nikolayevna berberova was a russian writer who chronicled the lives of russian exiles in paris in her short stories and novels. she visited post-sovie Read More about Nina Berberova
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