Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Against Hope

Nadezhda Mandelstam with Max Hayward (Translator), Maria Stepanova (Contributor)

568 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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 A Contemporary Classics hardcover of the inspiring account by the poet Osip Mandelstam’s devoted wife of their life together as he faced exile and repression in the Soviet Union, before dying in Stalin’s Great Purge.Nadezhda means “hope” in Russi...

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challenging 75%
emotional 75%
informative 75%
reflective 75%
dark 50%
inspiring 50%
tense 50%
lighthearted 25%

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