The Deserted House by Lydia Chukovskaya

The Deserted House

Lydia Chukovskaya with Aline Werth (Translator)

123 pages first pub 1965 (editions) user-added

fiction classics historical reflective medium-paced
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Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she ...

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