Sonechka
A Novella and Stories
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نقد و بررسی
June 15, 2005
In her first short story collection, Russian Booker Prize winner Ulitskaya ("The Funeral Party" ) covers the tumultuous terrain of relationships and love in 20th-century Russia. While some details in this engaging collection are time- and place-specific (e.g., communal apartments during the Soviet era), the characters' motives and feelings rise to the universal. In the title story, Sonechka so loves her husband and their life together that she accepts what many would find unthinkable. In "The Queen of Spades," Anna considers her love for and fear of her controlling mother as she watches her ex-husband neatly manage the elderly woman. "Zurich" explores the course of love and happiness in Lidia's life when she leaves her homeland and marries a Swiss businessman. Many of the stories contain echoes of classical Russian literature, among them "Angel," in which a professor marries a woman in order to be physically close to his true love -her son. Recommended for academic and public collections. -Heather Wright, ASRC Aerospace Corp., Cincinnati
Copyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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