The Time Of Women

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154700403321
• Autore: Chizhova Elena
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Glagoslav Publications Limited, 2012
• ISBN: 1-909156-23-X; 1-909156-46-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetti: Women; Russia (Federation)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title; Copyright; Untitled; Contents; To my grandmothers; Chapter I: The Mother; Chapter II: The Daughter; Chapter III: The Mother; Chapter IV: Glikeria; Chapter V: Yevdokia; Chapter VI: The Stepfather; Chapter VII: Ariadna; Chapter VIII: Solomon; Chapter IX: The Granddaughter; Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: The Russian Booker Prize winning novel "The Time of Women" tells the story of three old women raising a small mute girl, Suzanna, in a communal apartment in the Soviet Union of the 1960s. This novel weaves together the personal and historical struggles of mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and women who become sisters through circumstance.