A uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in war time Russia, of friends and family who vanished in the Gulag.
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A uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in war time Russia, of friends and family who vanished in the Gulag.
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x14cm, 133 pp., Translation of: Deux oranges pour le fils d'Alexandre Lévy. Translated by John Berger & Lisa Appignanesi. "Checkovian in its deceptive lightness, Nella Bielski's fiction is a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband Paul, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia, and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag, of parents who loved her. Yet running like a powerful current throughout is the energy of life itself, precious in the details of its very everydayness. Politics are a part of this life, shaping it without ever occupying its centre, like Alexander Levy whose crime it was to invent a simple dream of a tolerable existence. Nella Bielski's novel, like the best of poetry, illumines the ordinary and asserts, against painful odds the value of living. " Publisher's description.
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NF. First English language edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust j acket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Mild fadin g to the dust jacket's spine. Small rubs to its corners.
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Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1st Printing. This is a Very Fine copy of the first edition (English) 1st printing). In a Very Fine dust jacket. Not a remainder copy.