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Charlotte Hobson
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Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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288 |
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2001-06-21 |
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1862073996 |
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Granta Books |
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0.79 pounds |
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5.35 x 7.56 x 1.1 inches |
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1 Cathy T (United Kingdom) |
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1 Karenwardill (Canada) |
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Product Description
The story of a young woman's heady encounter with Russia - and a society in collapse. In 1991, Charlotte Hobson went to study for a year in the provincial town of Voronezh. She captures the lives of her young contemporaries as the Soviet Union breaks up around them: Viktor, and his brutal memories of military service; Lola who sleeps with her fellow students for a share of their dinner; Yakov, blowing a million roubles of the Salvation Army's money on a taxi to Minsk to see a girl. Here too is the author's story and Mitya's. Their love affair begins in a mood of wild optimism. Anything, it seems, is possible. Until in spring the snow thaws, and reveals the black earth beneath.
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