The big green tent

An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.

Main Authors: Ulitskaya, Ludmila., Ulit͡skai͡a, Li͡udmila (Author)
Other Authors: Gannon, Mary Catherine, 1953- (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Russian
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition: First American edition.
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Summary: An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.
Item Description: Translated from the Russian.
Physical Description: viii, 579 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780374166670
0374166676
Author Notes: Ludmila Ulitskaya was born in Russia and trained as a geneticist, she turned to writing after she had been stripped of her scientific credentials in the 1970's for translating a banned novel - Leon Uris's Exodus - into Russian. She lives in Moscow.