The Women's Decameron (English and Russian Edition) - Softcover

Voznesenskaya, Julia; Linton, W.B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080500601X ISBN 13: 9780805006018

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1987

Synopsis

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)

From Publishers Weekly:

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.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 080500601X
• ISBN 13: 9780805006018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302