The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories

The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0811214737
ISBN-13 : 9780811214735
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Book Synopsis The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories by : Nina Berberova

Download or read book The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories written by Nina Berberova and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists range from housekeepers and waiters to shabby-genteel aristocrats and intellectualsbut all are united in a haunting displacement from their pasts, and all share a troubling uncertainty about the future.


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