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| Title | : | The Ship of Widows (European Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810111446 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 179 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
Olga is "a bit of an intellectual," Anfisa and the fitter Panka are working class; Kapa, a religious peasant; and Ada, a former operetta singer despised for her "parasitism." Grekova, though, is not much given to insight, and her characters, who veer dangerously close to stereotype and melodrama, remain static throughout. Told from the shifting narrative perspective of two of the women, Olga Ivanovna and Anfisa Gromova, the story works best when it explores the quotidian: the arduous quests for food, work, adequate medical ca
A Telling Story about living in a Communal Apartment Gene Brosius Grekova pens a story illustrating the life of several women and how their lives are intertwined after coming to live in a communal apartment in Russia. The phrase that speaks to me most poignantly is that that their lives are intertwined not due to destiny but only through chance. Lives of constant work to put food on the table, lives of adhering to religious authority
"My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war." Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought together in a large communal apartment by the vagaries of war in the year 1943. The Ship of Widows reveals an seldom-seen period of Russia's history and an understudied segment of its population---it's women.. It spotlights the female experience of World War II: the fate of those not at the front, but still forced to fight as desperately to survive starvation, cold, and exhaustion, and to maintain homes and a country to which the soldiers can return
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