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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The writer and satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her to leave her country forever. Memories is her blackly funny and heartbreaking account of her final, frantic journey into exile across Russia - travelling by cart, freight train and rickety steamer - and the 'ordinary and unheroic' people she encounters. From refugees setting up camp on a dockside to a singer desperately buying a few 'last scraps' of fabric to make a dress, all are caught up in the whirlwind; all are immortalised by Teffi's penetrating gaze.Fusing exuberant wit and bitter horror, this is an extraordinary portrayal of what it means to say goodbye, with haunting relevance in today's new age of diaspora. Published in English for the first time, it confirms the rediscovery of Teffi as one of the most humane, perceptive observers of her times, and an essential writer for ours. A vividly idiosyncratic personal account of the disintegration of Tsarist Russia after the Revolution, as alive to the farcical and the ridiculous as it is to the tragic; a bit like what Chekhov might have written if he had lived to experience it.' - Michael Frayn Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781782272991
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Book Description Condition: New. pp. 352. Seller Inventory # 371889072
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Book Description Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 7.76x5.04x0.83 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1782272992
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Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 28771405-n
Book Description Condition: New. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Jackson, Anne Marie; Steinberg, Irina. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; BM; DSK; HBTV4; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781782272991