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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.

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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.
Subjects:	Male friendship > Soviet Union > Fiction. Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1945-1991 > Fiction. Soviet Union > Intellectual life > Fiction. Historical fiction > Soviet Union.
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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.