Stalin's Children
Three Generations of Love and War
(Sprache: Englisch)
An unprecedented insight into the grim brutality of the Russian revolution and the terror of the Cold War
An unprecedented insight into the grim brutality of the Russian revolution and the terror of the Cold War
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An unprecedented insight into the grim brutality of the Russian revolution and the terror of the Cold War
An unprecedented insight into the grim brutality of the Russian revolution and the terror of the Cold War
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'A Russian Wild Swans ... Some of the stories will stay with me forever' Sunday TimesOn a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and passionate affair. Decades later, a reporter in nineties Moscow, her son Owen Matthews, pieces together his grandfather's passage through the harrowing world of Stalin's purges, and tells the story of his parents' Cold War love affair through their heartbreaking letters and memories. Stalin's Children is a raw, vivid memoir about a young man's struggle to understand his parents' lives and the history of the strange country in which they lived.
Autoren-Porträt von Owen Matthews
Owen Matthews studied Modern History at Oxford University before beginning his career as a journalist in Bosnia. He has written for the Moscow Times, The Times, the Spectator and the Independent. In 1997, he became a correspondent at Newsweek magazine in Moscow where he covered the second Chechen war, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. His first book on Russian history, Stalin's Children, was translated into 28 languages and shortlisted for The Guardian First Books Award and France's Prix Medicis. Owen's first book on Russian history was Stalin's Children, a family memoir, which was published to great critical acclaim in 2008. The book was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Orwell Prize for political writing, and selected as one of the Books of the Year by the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages and was shortlisted for France's Medici Prize and French Elle Magazine's Grand Prix Litteraire, as well as being selected as one of the FNAC chain's twenty featured titles for the Rentree Litteraire of 2009. Owen is currently a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, based in Istanbul and Moscow.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Owen Matthews
- 2009, 320 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13 x 19,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747596603
- ISBN-13: 9780747596608
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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'A Russian Wild Swans ... Some of the stories will stay with me forever' Sunday Times 'Heartbreaking, romantic and utterly compelling ... An astonishing personal history of love, death and betrayal' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Gripping ... This fascinating book is not a footnote to Soviet history: it is Soviet history, one of the millions of private tales of evil and astonishing endurance that make up the awful whole' Observer 'Epic ... extraordinary ... Matthews ... seems to contain an essence of a Russia that preceded the turmoils and savage inflictions that he so richly describes in his book' Simon Callow, Guardian
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