Women's Decameron - Softcover
10 women quarantined in a Lenin maternity clinic tell each other stories that reflect women's experience in the contemporary USSR. The author, who was a founder of the first independent women's group in the USSR, was imprisoned and then exiled for her social and literary activities.
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Text: English, Russian (translation)
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Ten women in a Leningrad maternity ward regale each other for 10 days with tales and anecdotes ranging from the pungent to the raunchy, with a few tear-jerkers sprinkled between. Zina the tramp, Olga the shipyard worker, and Larissa the doctor of biology compete amicably with Albina the Aeroflot hostess, a wry expert on sexual mores whose motto is to dress on credit and undress for cash, and party functionary Valentina, who unbends considerably when she tells how she tangled a would-be rapist in her mitten-strings. The topics cover the ruses and revenges, together with acts of generosity, that loveand lustinspire. In her first novel, literate dissident Voznesenskaya candidly unfolds a brillant spectrum of Soviet daily life in labor camps (where she spent time), country dachas, and urban dormitories. Readers will find her accounts eye-opening while succumbing to their salty, jaundiced charm.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMinerva
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0749390921
- ISBN 13 9780749390921
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- Number of pages330
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