The Time: Night
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810118009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Since she appeared on the Russian literary scene in the 1970s, Petrushevskaya has produced a steady outpouring of short stories and plays; today, she is generally considered to be one of the finest living Russian writers. While the facts of the story are relentlessly depressing, the author's signature black humor and matter-of-fact prose result in an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a family in crisis. Anna is desperately trying to hold on to her small apartment in Moscow while fending off the relentless demands of her two grown children and their families. The loosely str
yulia said book about Russian mothers and daughters. I read this book a while ago, and while I forget a lot of stuff I read, this was very memorable. In my view, it's about a wide-spread Russian cultural phenomenon: mothers abusing their daughters. I remember I didn't catch it in the beginning and sympathized with the main character (Anna), thinking what a heroic mother and grandmother she was, taking care of her un. Tanya Lamnin said Petrushevskaya has done better. Reading Ludmila Petrushevskaya is like snooping around the darkest corners of one's own soul. She mixes the day-to-day reality with urban legends, religious mysticism, dreams, ghosts, you name it. And she is usually really good at it--in this book, however, she sticks with reality, and, I think, shortchanges the reader.This is a good book, of course. You cannot he. A superb novel by an overlooked contemporary author. A Customer I have to confess: I had mixed feelings about this book. I meandered along, enjoying the brief and naive sections plagiarized from the narrator's sluttish daughter Alyona, but muddling through Anna's daily life of suffering. Occasionally the anti-social antics of her grandson Tima livened up the scene. However, something pulled me forward, and, toward the book's c
Challenging that myth is her headstrong daughter Alyona, a woman with appalling judgment and several illegitimate children, who both needs Anna and hates her.. Anna Andrianova is a trite poet and disastrous parent. First published in Russia in 1992, The Time: Night is a darkly humorous depiction of the Soviet utopia's underbelly by one of the most brilliant stylists in contemporary Russian literature. Heading a household dominated by women, she can cling to the myth of the all-powerful yet suffering Russian matriarch