Review
1966
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Nikolai Belov. "The Deserted House"
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Nikolai Belov
Among the heaps of memoirs and reminiscences, a pearl is finally found – Lydia Chukovskaia’s “The Deserted House.”Written in Maupassant-like style of La Vie d’une Femme, it dives into the life of a mother, a widow living in the Soviet times of trouble in the late 1930s...