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The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ; translated with an introduction by Anna Summers. by Petrushevskaia, Liudmila. Call #: 921 P498g Subjects Petrushevskaia, Liudmila -- Childhood and youth.   Petrushevskaia, Liudmila -- Family.   Petrushevskaia, Liudmila -- Friends and associates.   Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) -- History -- 20th century.   Women authors, Russian -- 21st century -- Biography   Authors, Russian -- 21st century -- Biography.   Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.   Coming of age -- Soviet Union.   Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.   Moscow (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.   Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography. ISBN:  9780143129974 (pbk.) Description:  xix, 149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Notes:  Original Russian edition: 2006. Contents:  Introduction : Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's war / by Anna Summers -- The girl from the Metropol Hotel -- Family circumstances : the Vegers -- The war -- Kuibyshev -- Kuibyshev : survival strategies -- How I was rescued -- The Durov Theater -- Searching for food -- Dolls -- Victory night -- The Officers' Club -- The courtiers' language -- The Bolshoi Theater -- Down the ladder -- Literary sleep-ins -- My performances : green sweater -- The portrait -- The story of a little sailor -- My new life -- The Metropol Hotel -- Mumsy -- Summer camp -- Chekhov Street : Grandpa Kolya -- Trying to fit in -- Children's home -- I want to live! -- Snowdrop -- The wild berries -- Gorilla -- Dying swan -- Sanych -- Foundling. Summary:  "Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In this memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation - of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing - of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food - we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories; and There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Biography 921 P498g Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 P498g Core Collection - Adult Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Biography 921 P498g Adult books Checked out Jul 09, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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