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Item Details
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BLACK EARTH CITY: A YEAR IN RUSSIA
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| By: |
Charlotte Hobson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1862074984 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781862074989 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
17 May, 2002 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
"Black Earth City" captures the lives of the contemporaries of the author as the old Soviet Union crumbles and chaos begins to pervade the lives of those around her as old certainties dissolve away in the new Russia. |
| Synopsis: |
Charlotte Hobson spent her gap year as a student in Voronezh, in deepest provincial Russia. Her arrival coincided with the collapse of this society, as initial optimism about the fall of communism gave way to disillusionment and uncertainy. These feelings are mirrored in the doomed love affair she has with the vodka-swilling Mitya. They too started out in a mood of wild optimism, and felt that anything was possible. Until in the spring the snow thawed, and revealed the black earth beneath. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Granta Books |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2002 (Australia) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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