✍ Scribed by Ludmila Ulitskaya
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The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya's The Funeral Party , "In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents--four kinds of love. Could it really be that in Russia they have more? Ludmila Ulitskaya makes it seem so." In Sonechka: A Novella and Stories , Ulitskaya brings us tales of these other loves in her richly lyrical prose, populated with captivating and unusual characters.
In "Queen of Spades," Anna, a successful ophthalmologic surgeon in her sixties; her daughter, Katya; and Katya's teenage daughter and young son live in constant terror of Anna's mother, a domineering, autocratic, aging former beauty queen. In "Angel," a closeted middle-aged professor marries an uneducated charwoman for love of her young son, raising the child in his image. In "The Orlov-Sokolovs," perfectly matched young lovers are pulled apart by the Soviet academic bureaucracy. And in the stunning novella "Sonechka," the heroine, a bookworm turned muse turned...
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