Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
This is a fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the author's own experience, this novella paints an almost documentary-style picture of life in Leningrad during this period. The story of the publication of the book, written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, is treated in the introduction, which also contains a brief biography of the author, a vocabulary and notes.
Publication
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1994.
ISBN
0810111500 / 9780810111509
Pages
120
Language
Original language
Russian
Original publication date
1965 (Russian)
1966 (French)
1967 (English)