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The Big Green Tent

Book ID
126260955
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Standards

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✦ Synopsis

An absorbing novel of dissident life in the Soviet Union, by one of Russia's most popular writers
The Big Green Tent is the kind of book the term "Russian novel" was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys—an orphaned poet; a gifted, fragile pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting secrets—struggle to reach adulthood in a society where their heroes have been censored and exiled. Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for integrity in a society defined by the KGB. Each of the central characters seeks to transcend an oppressive regime through art, a love of Russian literature, and activism. And each of...

✦ Subjects

Советская классическая проза

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