β DΓΆnges, GΓΌnter
π Fiction
π
1965
π Zauberkreis Verlag
π German
β 104 KB
π 1 views
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Mannequin Girl
β Scribed by Ellen Litman
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A heartfelt and deftly told coming-of-age story, Mannequin Girl captures the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence."A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's Working Woman magazines, modeling flouncy dresses and berets. "Bend," he tells her, and she does, so pliant, so obedient."
Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. Kat sees herself as their heir and ally. But when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution--a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to...
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