The Big Green Tent : A Novel (Paperback)

from banjo123

The Big Green Tent by Ljudmila Ulitskaya I recommend this sprawling, Russian novel. This is a book with a big scope, that gives a picture of life as a dissident in post-Stalin Russia. The structure is interesting... the book starts as a straight-forward narrative about three school friends with a...

from steller0707

Ulitskaya' sweeping novel follows the tradition of her Russian literature forbears. It begins with Stalin's death in 1953 and ends in 1990. In some ways, the novel feels like a series of stories bringing to life what it was like to be a dissident in post-Stalin Russia; how they lived and managed ...

from BlueGiraffe

It's a Russian novel: lengthy, epic in scope, dense, with a cast of thousands and plenty of philosophy and moral dilemmas.

from bostonbibliophile

Big, sweeping tale of the life and death of a generation of Soviets from Stalin's death onwards. Heavily character-driven and written like a series of interconnected short stories, Ulitskaya's book is centered on the lives and loves of a group of friends- llya, Sanya, Mishka and Olga, their famil...

from bostonbibliophile

Big, sweeping tale of the life and death of a generation of Soviets from Stalin's death onwards. Heavily character-driven and written like a series of interconnected short stories, Ulitskaya's book is centered on the lives and loves of a group of friends- llya, Sanya, Mishka and Olga, their famil...